Sana Krasikov & Viv Groskop

Sana Krasikov and Viv Groskop discuss the Soviet experience, the rise of mass cynicism and the politics of Russia and the US today.

Sana Krasikov

‘The world is teeming with demons who are always looking for ways to screw with your good fortune.’

Luke Neima

Not long before he died on 21 December 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald recorded himself reading a version of John Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’.

Gwendoline Riley

Gwendoline Riley on Caspar David Friedrich, sketching and Chekhov.

Ken Follett

Ken Follett reads his piece, ‘Bad Faith’, from Granta 137

Maureen N. McLane & Rachael Allen

Granta’s poetry editor Rachael Allen talks to Maureen N. McLane about ecology, lyric authority, and balancing poetry with criticism.

Cynan Jones

‘A pair of seagulls. I say a pair. They might just be good friends.’

Carmen Maria Machado

Eliza Robertson

‘For me, astrology’s opened this new language and field of understanding.’

Pwaangulongii Dauod

Mark Gevisser and Pwaangulongii Dauod discuss Africa’s LGBTI communities, an experience of violent sexual repression, and Afro-Modernity.

Renee Gladman

‘I go here to slow everything down, to study shadow in a space of dreaming.’

Madeleine Thien & Ka Bradley

‘Do you speak or do you not speak? Is every word that you speak then compromised?’

Astrid Alben

Astrid Alben discusses her work, the interdisciplinary journal Pars, and developing a poetic alter ego.