Explore Interviews
Sort by:
Sort by:
Jesse Ball | Interview
Jesse Ball
‘Confusion is the only natural response to the world, the alternative would be to just fall in with everyone else’s plans.’
Jen George | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Jen George
Jen George shares her process of translating visual art into text
Nicole Krauss In Conversation
Nicole Krauss
‘The ancient stories we tell, as beautiful as they may be, also serve to shape our conventions about who we think we are or should be’
Karan Mahajan | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Karan Mahajan
‘The through line in my work that I see is how easily we can turn people into the other’
Anthony Marra | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Anthony Marra
‘The terrain of literature is this space where you can pose these paradoxes of personal and political ethics’
George Saunders In Conversation | Podcast
George Saunders
A discussion of the mind of Abraham Lincoln, the art of creating historical voices, verbal improv and writing the afterlife.
Andrea Stuart In Conversation | Podcast
Andrea Stuart
Josie Mitchell talks to Andrea Stuart about her essay ‘Travels in Pornland’. They discuss the value of feminist porn, the importance of counter narratives and the challenges faced by feminist pornographers.
Esmé Weijun Wang | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Esmé Weijun Wang
‘I really love Southern Gothic literature and so part of me was like – well, what if I could create an Immigrant Gothic?’
Sarah Hall and Tessa Hadley In Conversation
Sarah Hall & Tessa Hadley
‘Literature is that odd paradox: an artifice that somehow truthfully engages the reader, the mind, the emotions, the self, in essential communion.’
How to Fight Climate Change
James Thornton & Martin Goodman
A discussion of the environmental pratfalls of Brexit and the Trump presidency, and how judicial action is best used in the fight against climate change.
Toni Morrison In Conversation
Toni Morrison, Mario Kaiser & Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Sarah Ladipo Manyika and Mario Kaiser interview the Nobel Laureate.
Garth Risk Hallberg | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Garth Risk Hallberg & Luke Neima
‘I am very interested in the question of reality on the one hand and imagination on the other, so the mirror has to be angled slightly to take in something that isn’t already there’