This issue of Granta is about time and about ghosts – the ghosts of our past selves, the shadows of past injuries, the ghosts of history, the ghosts in the machine.     

André Aciman remembers Rome 

Ahmet Altan writes from prison in Turkey 

Bernard Cooper on Ambien and sleep-eating 

Maggie O’Farrell on living with chronic back pain 

Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad, a companion to his epic Life and Fate 

Amos Oz in conversation with Shira Hadad 

Inigo Thomas on the fall of Singapore     

PLUS  NEW FICTION from Anne Carson, Steven Dunn, Sheila Heti, Eugene Lim, Sandra Newman, Maria Reva and Jess Row 

POETRY from Cortney Lamar Charleston and Jana Prikryl 

PHOTOGRAPHY from Monika Bulaj, with an introduction by Janine di Giovanni