In Grand Streets upcoming issue, digressions, detours, and deviations prove more fruitful than the beaten path. Antonio Tabucchi's sets off on imaginary adventures in "Books Never Written, Journeys Never Made"; Shozo Numa fast-forward's to a dystopian 40th-century nation in his postmodern cult novel, Yapoo, the Human Cattle, published here for the first time in English with anime illustrations; traitor Soviet General A. A. Vlasov meets his final destination in the second installment of William T. Vollmanns "Breakout"; Nobel Prize winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz takes up poetry to re-create the songs of his childhood; and Luis Sepulveda chronicles unfulfilled moments in three vignettes from his collection Desencuentros. Along the way you'll find art by Susan Meiselas; postwar photography and writing by Shomei Tomatsu and Daido Moriyama; Jose Manuel Prieto's observations on life in Moscow; an interview with director Paul Thomas Anderson; fiction by Lidia Jorge, Ozren Kebo and Terezia Mora; poetry by Rachel Hadas and Harryette Mullen; and portfolios by Shahzia Sikander and Artur Bispo do Rosario.