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Al Alvarez | Interview
Al Alvarez & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I think anything is good for you that makes you laugh.’
NoViolet Bulawayo | Interview
NoViolet Bulawayo
‘My love affair with books had turned into a marriage.’
David McConnell | Interview
David McConnell & Patrick Ryan
‘These were deranged acts but they were ultimately based on something that’s historically been treated as a social good, the sense of personal honour.’
Tan Twan Eng | Podcast
Tan Twan Eng & John Freeman
Tan Twan Eng speaks to Granta’s John Freeman about the art of shakkei and being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Lillian Li | Interview
Lillian Li
‘I don’t think I ever learned how to tell a story in the literal sense.’
The Ethics of Photojournalism | Podcast
Michael Salu, Afshin Dehkordi & Daniel Campbell Blight
Michael Salu, Afshin Dehkordi and Daniel Campbell Blight on controversial imagery and the relationship between the subject and the photographer.
James Lasdun | Podcast
James Lasdun & Ted Hodgkinson
James Lasdun on his memoir, D.H. Lawrence and why finding a close reader can sometimes be a curse.
Dan Rhodes | Interview
Dan Rhodes & Ted Hodgkinson
‘My work tends to be about people who struggle to understand what’s going on around them. I can’t think why that would be.’
Eric Anderson and Sean Borodale In Conversation
Eric Anderson & Sean Borodale
‘The incendiary elements that start my poems are often something I find shocking, but hopefully not gratuitous.’
Elias Khoury | Interview
Sophia Efthimiatou & Elias Khoury
‘As the reader follows her in and out of consciousness, her history unravels and entwines with religious and social myths, and Lebanese folklore.’
Granta Norway | Interview
Trude Rønnestad & Ted Hodgkinson
‘To an extent I have tried to make the issue span the full spectrum of Norwegian literature.’
Colin Robinson | Podcast
Colin Robinson & Ted Hodgkinson
Colin Robinson reads from his memoir ‘Paddleball’ in Granta 122: Betrayal and talks to Ted Hodgkinson about how an old brotherly friction re-emerged during a game in New York, and how gym culture has changed the way we view our bodies.
Mohsin Hamid | Podcast
Mohsin Hamid & John Freeman
The author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid, talks to John Freeman on The Granta Podcast.
Sergio Pitol | Best Untranslated Writers
Valeria Luiselli
‘Perhaps it is the way he’s able to delicately tap into the most disturbing layers of reality and turn our conception of what is normal inside out. Perhaps it’s because he’s always telling a deeper, sadder, more disquieting story while pretending to narrate another.’
