Granta 158: In the Family features Fatima Bhutto on grief and loss; Chris Dennis on his teenage relationship with an older man; Charif Majdalani (trans. Ruth Diver) on the fragmenting situation in Beirut and Will Rees on a journey through the NHS in search of a diagnosis.

This winter issue includes fiction by Nathan Harris, Julie Hecht, Sheila Heti, Moses McKenzie, Debbie Urbanski and Kate Zambreno, as well as poetry by Akwaeke Emezi, Claire Schwartz and Dawn Watson.

A poem by Rachel Long introduces a photoessay by Lewis Khan, and Damian Le Bas introduces a photoessay made by the Herak family.