American wild

Sigrid Rausing, Martin Amis, Anthony Doerr, Callan Wink, Melinda Moustakis, David Treuer, Jess Row, Nicola Lo Calzo, Andrew Motion, Adam Nicolson, Aaron Huey, Mary Ruefle, Thomas McGuane, Anne Carson, Diane Cook, Claire Vaye Watkins, Mona Simpson

American Wild: it can kill you, or exhilarate you. It's always there, a character in its own right in the great unfolding narrative of American writing. This issue of Granta is dedicated to stories of the wild, from MELINDA MOUSTAKIS on gutting fish in Alaska to CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS on a lost child in a dystopian California. Also: ANTHONY DOERR on a family of pioneers in Idaho, ADAM NICOLSON on tracking wolves in New Mexico and DAVID TREUER on cage fighting and his Ojibwe heritage.