Granta 131

This issue of Granta is about the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding. It's also about the borderlands of politics and reason, and of reality and transcendence, in contested territories. Ludmila Ulitskaya 's diary of cancer treatment in Russia and Israel Raja Shehadeh on emptying his mother's house in Ramallah Janine di Giovanni remembers Iraq before and after the American invasion Charles Glass on the jiha