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The Exploding Planet of Junot Díaz
Evelyn Ch’ien
‘The world tends to give us pieces, and then in our imagination, because of our desire and because of our need, we make them whole.’
Ablutions
Patrick deWitt
An animated video including a reading from Patrick deWitt’s novel Ablutions.
Kettly Mars | Best Untranslated Writers
Edwidge Danticat
‘Ms Mars is a singularly gifted writer, who with each new work delves more profoundly into themes that are both timely and essential.’
Paul Auster | Interview
Paul Auster
Paul Auster discusses his new novel ‘Invisible’, his writing process and the unsettling quality of narrative clarity.
The Man from Hiroshima
Maurizio Chierici
‘Then the explosion stunned me momentarily. Hiroshima disappeared under a yellow cloud. No one spoke after that.’
Eleanor Catton | Interview
Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton, author of the critically acclaimed, Betty Trask-award-winning debut novel, The Rehearsal, talks to Granta.
The Sweetmaker of Kabul
Oliver Englehart
‘The Mandayee bazaar in Kabul’s old city is no tourist souk. Stop to gawp at some oddity of life here and you might be trampled under the mucky wheels of an overladen handcart.’
Peter Carey | Interview
Peter Carey
Peter Carey on Alexis de Tocqueville, writing fiction and the inspiration for his forthcoming novel.
Music and Memory
Various Contributors
‘There was a time when I discovered that the best way to remember things was with the accompaniment of very loud music.’
Banyan
Robert Olen Butler
‘I wake and it’s dark and a woman is beside me, naked and small, and she is waking too and the room is still heavy with the incense she burned for her dead.’
