<p><i>Granta </i>129 brings you twenty-two meditations on fate in all its many forms. From <b>Joseph Roth</b>'s reflection on Sarajevo in the wake of the First World War to <b>Cynthia Ozick</b>'s exploration of the limits of belief, this issue stretches our understanding of fate, both in fact and in fiction. <br><br>Striking the keys of the same typewriter that once sat under J.G. Ballard's fingers, <b>Will Self</b> reimagines the legendary writer's last days. <b>Mark Gevisser </b>investigates transgender identities in America. <b>Louise Erdrich</b> presents a world where bodies can be traded in for a digital afterlife. <br><br>In an extract from her forthcoming novel, <b>Miranda July</b> describes the awkward dynamics between an uptight office worker, her love interest and a disruptive twenty-year-old. <b>Fatima Bhutto</b> depicts the mounting of tensions between Christian and Muslim families in a remote valley in Pakistan and Granta's Best of Young British Novelist <b>Helen