You Don’t Have To Live Like This
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Ann Patchett | Interview
Ann Patchett & Patrick Ryan
‘I grew up in an environment where there was nothing weird about limitless friendship.’
Walking on the West Bank
Robert Macfarlane
‘As walking becomes less easy, it has become correspondingly more important.’
Ali Akbar Natiq | Interview
Ali Akbar Natiq & Ollie Brock
‘No character in my stories is an ideal person; they are mere human beings who can either be oppressors or oppressed, or sometimes both at the same time.’
A Mason’s Hand | New Voices
Ali Akbar Natiq
‘Haji sahib, these kids are beyond me. I can’t teach them any more. Please make some other arrangement.’
Philip Oltermann | Interview
Philip Oltermann & Ollie Brock
Philip Oltermann spoke to Ollie Brock for the Granta Podcast about English bathrooms and German car engines, and how his experience as an outsider became the nexus of his forthcoming book.
Chris Dennis | Interview
Chris Dennis & Ellah Allfrey
‘A story is a dream, and no matter how fantastic the dream is, it’s still constructed from reality.’
Contacts
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
Photographs from the Belfast Exposed Archive, documenting the Troubles from the early 1970s.
New Hotel Krakow
Adam Zagajewski
‘Now someone else lives in that apartment, / strange people, the scent of a strange life.’
A poem by Adam Zagajewski.
Edenvale
Mark Gevisser
‘The city was also a place of possibility and even, paradoxically, liberation.’
The Mercies
Ann Patchett
‘Once you knew what God wanted from your life, you would have to be ten different kinds of fool to look the other way.’
James
Madeleine Thien
‘You can follow the trail but you can’t know in which direction you are headed’
One Day I Will Write About This Place
Binyavanga Wainaina
‘We are, it seems, in the middle of nowhere.’
English Hours: Nothing Personal
Paul Theroux
‘England does not have a climate; it has weather, seldom dramatic.’
Here Is What You Do
Chris Dennis
‘It’s like there’s a piece of candy hidden deep inside you and everyone is trying to find the easiest way to get it out.’
The Forging of a Writer
Tim Rushby-Smith
‘As a child visiting friends’ houses, I soon realized that our living room was unusual. Not everyone had an entire wall of books, floor to ceiling.’
Three Questions for Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss & Saskia Vogel
‘It’s easy to make an argument for the importance of literature in general, but almost impossible to sustain any conviction about the specific value of one’s own work.’
George Orwell: Diaries
George Orwell
‘A jagged stone skimming across ice makes exactly the same sound as a redshank whistling.’
Bilal Tanweer | Interview
Bilal Tanweer & Ollie Brock
‘In my writing, the voice is the primary concern for me, and most of the time I construct everything else from it.’
After That, We Are Ignorant
Bilal Tanweer
‘He used to see things in his dreams and made them his policies. Yup, Americans loved his dreams because he was screwing the Soviets and Comrades in them.’
Granta em Português | Interview
Ollie Brock, Robert Feith & Marcelo Ferroni
‘It’s been a rich, multifaceted, very challenging and hugely rewarding professional experience.’
Colombia | Snapshot
Jaime Manrique
‘Two obsessions dominated my life during adolescence: to become a writer and to find my true love.’
Guatemala | Snapshot
Eduardo Halfon
‘The roads of Guatemala have always been its best and worst theatre.’
