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Julie Otsuka | Interview
Julie Otsuka & Patrick Ryan
‘Using the ‘we’ voice allowed me to tell a much larger story than I would have been able to tell otherwise.’
Turkish Granta | Interview
Berrak Gocer & Ted Hodgkinson
‘The writings, when they came together, made it very clear that there will always be a new approach to the issue of identity.’
Karen Russell | Interview
Karen Russell & Patrick Ryan
‘I think it’s impossible to draw a hard and fast line between reality and fantasy.’
The Stone-Thrower from Eisenhuttenstadt
Max Thomas Mehr & Regine Sylvester
‘It has nothing to do with the question of the foreigners. No one in Eisenhuttenstadt wants the foreigners here.’
In Conversation: Tishani Doshi and Karthika Naïr
Tishani Doshi & Karthika Naïr
‘I have never felt it as a poet, and that is why I’m doubly grateful to dance, for having experienced the loneliness and the terror of the empty stage, but also, to have had that live connection.’
Justin Torres | Interview
Justin Torres & Jennifer de Leon
‘I wanted to write a book about a family so complicated, so in love, and so flawed, that folks would resist easy categories.’
David Peace and Kyoko Nakajima in Conversation
Kyoko Nakajima & David Peace
‘When we talk about history, the dangers of embellishment, fabrication and wilful distortion are ever-present’
Louis de Bernières | Interview
Anita Sethi
‘At four o’clock in the morning, when Louis de Bernières has lines of poetry repeating in his head which won’t stop gnawing away, he writes them down.‘
Anthony Doerr | Interview
Anthony Doerr & Patrick Ryan
‘The natural world is full of records and erasures.’
The Game of Evenings
Adolf Hoffmeister & James Joyce
For Bloomsday, James Joyce and Adolf Hoffmeister argue about a Czech translation of Finnegans Wake in a rare and intimate interview from 1930.