Granta 143 : After The Fact

What happens on the ground once the news cycle moves on? This issue of
Granta looks at what comes next. Donald Trump is the president of the
United States. Britain is leaving the European Union. Palmyra's monuments
have been destroyed by ISIS. The Antarctic shelf is breaking up. The
warnings, the debates, the arguments and the elections have all given way
to reality. What happens on the ground once the news cycle moves on? How do
we understand what we've done, and why? Granta 143 looks at what comes
next. Don McCullin and Charles Glass return to a ruined Palmyra; Gavin
Francis and Esa Aldegheri cross four Syrian borders on a motorbike; Jason
Cowley on Harlow, a former 'Mark One New Town' where he grew up; Ben
Rawlence on climate change relocation programs. Plus excellent new fiction,
poetry and photography.