How America Sees the World

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  01.16.04 | 9:09 PM ET

Granta’s latest issue serves up a powerhouse slate of American writers—thirty of them, including Eric Schlosser, Paul Theroux and Nell Freudenberger—discussing how they encountered countries other than their own. Parts of ten of the pieces are online, plus the introduction by Ian Jack, which lays out some of the thinking behind the ambitious theme issue.