Granta 157: Should We Have Stayed at Home?

From Antarctica and the deserts of the US-Mexico border, to a Siberian whale-killing station and the alleyways of Taipei, these dispatches describe a world in perpetual motion (even when it is 'locked-down'). To travel, we are reminded, is to embrace the experience of being a stranger - to acknowledge that one person's frontier is another's home.

Granta 157: Should We Have Stayed at Home? is guest-edited by award-winning travel writer William Atkins. It features:

• Jason Allen-Paisant remembers the trees of his childhood Jamaica from his home in Leeds
• Carlos Manuel Alvarez navigates Cuba's customs system, translated by Frank Wynne
• Eliane Brum travels from her home in the Brazilian Amazon to Antarctica in the era of climate crisis, translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty
• Francisco Cantu and Javier Zamora: a former border guard travels to the US-Mexico border with a former undocumented migrant who crossed the border as a child
• Jennifer Croft's richly illustrated essay on postcards and graffiti, inspired by Los Angeles
• Bathsheba Demuth visits a whale-hunting station on the Bering Strait, Russia
• Sinead Gleeson visits Brazil with Clarice Lispector
• Kate Harris with the Tinglit people of the Taku River basin, Alaska
• Artist Roni Horn on Iceland
• Emmanuel Iduma returns to Lagos in his late father's footsteps, Nigeria
• Kapka Kassabova among the gatherers of the ancient Mesta River, Bulgaria
• Taran Khan with Afghan migrants in Germany and Kabul
• Jessica J. Lee in the alleyways of Taipei, Taiwan, in search of her mother's home
• Ben Mauk among the volcanoes of Duterte's Philippines
• Pascale Petit tracks tigers in Paris and India
• Photographer James Tylor on the legacy of whaling in Indigenous South Australia, introduced by Dominic Guerrera