We are what we remember, and even when we invent, we write what we remember. Every line is a fragment of something else; that is the great collective project that we call culture. In this issue of Granta, writers remember, or invent, scenes from their own lives and the lives of others.

Ann Beattie

Fiona Benson

Andrew Brown

Bernard Cooper

Lydia Davis

David Gates

Arcelis Girmay

Laura Kasischke

Olivia Laing

Colin McAdam

Lorrie Moore

Norman Rush

Johnny Steinberg

Nathan Thornburgh

Marta Werner

Edmund White

Joy Williams

Introducing:

Katherine Faw Morris

Photography:

Brigitte Grignet

Yuri Kozyrev

Collages:

Janet Malcolm