What are the ethics of writing about a place you may visit only briefly and view with the eyes of an outsider? With Granta’s long tradition of travel writing in mind, we ask some of the world’s best writers: is travel writing dead in 2016?

Includes:

William Atkins investigates a killing across the US-Mexico border

Xan Rice goes back to school in South Africa

A brand new story from Edna O'Brien

David Flusfeder visits record factories in Detroit and California

Colin Grant trains as a doctor in 1980s London