I love to intersperse my reading with anthologies, and I have a collection of old issues of Granta magazine to choose from whenever I need a break from my longer reads. In this issue are writings by Michel Houllebecq, Assia Djebar, and Patrick Chamoiseau, among others. I didn't find this issue very remarkable, no particular piece stood out. I did enjoy David Macey's Fort-de-France enlightening -- about Martinique and its "Frenchness", and the photo essay by Raymond Depardon, one of France's most distinguished photojournalists, of the farm where he grew up. The more worthwhile piece was an extensive account by Brian Cathcart about the case of racial killing of Stephen Lawrence, a young black, in a suburb of London in 1993 gives us a view of how the system was manipulated to favour the white killers in a gross miscarriage of justice. ( )