Stop all the clocks: the spring issue of Granta - Dead Friends - brings vital figures from one's past momentarily back into focus. Eschewing dewy-eyed remembrances and dry obituaries, features include Fernanda Eberstadt on Andy Warhol, Aatish Taseer on V.S. Naipul, Tao Lin on Giancarlo DiTrapano, Michel Houellebecq on Benot Duteurtre, William Atkins on a new method to dispose of mortal remains, an interview with Renata Adler, as well as new fiction from Marlen Haushofer, Yasmina Reza and Gary Indiana (among others).