Astrid Alben

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

Emma Jane Unsworth & Rachel B. Glaser

‘Fiction is like those amazing robots that build other robots.’

Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.

April Ayers Lawson

She shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.

Cynan Jones

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

Eliza Robertson

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

Katy Simpson Smith

Katy Simpson Smith shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.

Melissa Febos

‘I don’t care if anyone is watching and that’s the point.’

Melissa Lee-Houghton

‘It thrills and delights me that I can now watch concerts I would’ve given several fingers to go to in the ’90s, albeit wonky though these videos are.’

Renee Gladman

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

Siobhán Mannion

Siobhán Mannion shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.

Carmen Maria Machado

Han Kang & Max Porter

Han Kang visited the Granta offices to discuss her book Human Acts.