This new edition collects a dozen of the finest pieces of reportage Granta has published. Featuring distinguished writers and reporters such as James Fenton, Martha Gellhorn, Ryszard Kapuscinski, John le Carré, Joseph Lelyveld and Marilynne Robinson, as well as such new talents as Suketu Mehta and Wendell Steavenson, the book covers some of the signal events of our time: the fall of Saigon, the massacre in Tiananmen Square, and the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq.