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Chinelo Okparanta | Interview
Chinelo Okparanta & Yuka Igarashi
‘I wanted to be sure to approach their resistance to Nnenna’s homosexuality from a practical perspective – one of fear, rather than one of hate.’
Interview: Leslee Udwin
Leslee Udwin & Sonia Faleiro
‘It’s the barrel that rots the apples.’ Leslee Udwin talks to Sonia Faleiro about her film India's Daughter.
Rattawut Lapcharoensap | Interview
Rattawut Lapcharoensap & Yuka Igarashi
‘Sometimes all a story needs is an interesting, clearly defined confusion.’
Romesh Gunesekera | Interview
Romesh Gunesekera & Ka Bradley
‘The past has never been as present as it is now in the world. But at the same time, all over the world, the determination to manipulate what we know has also never been stronger.’
Ryszard Kapuściński | Interview
Ryszard Kapuściński & Bill Buford
‘Mine is not a vocation, it's a mission.’
Granta Italy Sex | Interview
Paolo Zaninoni & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I think that the metaphor of bodily failure is a very apt one to reflect the feeling of weakness and despondency palpable today within the Italian society.’
Sam Lipsyte and Diane Cook in Conversation
Diane Cook & Sam Lipsyte
‘The bewilderment was productive, and relit a good fire under my instinct, which I didn’t have to conflate with certainty.’
A. Igoni Barrett | Interview
A. Igoni Barrett & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Fixing the rhythm of one sentence in the novel I’m working on is more vital for me than any considerations of where I’m coming from or where my work is headed.’
Philippe Claudel | Interview
Philippe Claudel & Emily Greenhouse
‘The modern novel can’t sidestep or ignore the idea of evil on an industrial level’
Patrick deWitt | Interview
Patrick deWitt & Ted Hodgkinson
‘The question of whether or not I’m addressing America in my writing only comes up with people outside of America.’
Adam Thirlwell | Interview
Adam Thirlwell & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I suppose it’s that word hyper that I was after: I was trying to find a form for a kind of hyper energy or anxiety.’
