Brea Souders & Alice Zoo

‘How would I feel if I had messaged for years with someone that I later found out was an AI?’

Brea Souders speaks to Alice Zoo about chatbots, interconnection and the dialogue between photography and text in her work.

Issue 167

Thea Riofrancos

‘It’s perhaps hard to imagine a country with abundant mineral or oil reserves simply leaving that wealth underground. But there are precedents here, historical and contemporary.’

Granta interviews Thea Riofrancos.

Teju Cole & Alice Zoo

‘Each successive image has to have the simultaneous feeling of being unanticipated and of being right.’

Teju Cole speaks to Alice Zoo about sequencing, portraiture, and the interplay between image and text.

Sonia Shah

‘Non-native species have been blamed for being invasive the way that immigrants have been blamed for causing crime.’

Daisy Lafarge

‘The earliest life on the planet was life without air, anaerobic bacteria that slowly died off when oxygen began to pollute the atmosphere’.

Lynne Tillman

‘Things that we love, things that we hate – we need to crack it open.’

Eyal Weizman & Rana Dasgupta

‘Architecture can be employed as a form of violence and violation.’

Jon Fosse

‘To me writing is a kind of listening. I don’t know what I am listening to, but I am listening!’

Teju Cole

‘What is this elsewhere that one is longing to be in? Part of the answer to this question, for me, is Switzerland.’

Constantia Soteriou

We talk to the winner of the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Jonathan Levi

‘It’s a miracle that Granta survived our mutual adolescence.’

Mathias Enard & Ian Maleney

‘I think the moral issue is being more or less truthful to what you believe in, that’s the important thing, whoever the character may be.’ Mathias Enard and Ian Maleney in Conversation

Akwaeke Emezi & Halimat Shode

Amy Sackville

‘What is your guiltiest pleasure? Is it really a pleasure if you feel bad about it?’