Andrea Mullaney

‘To move past the ugly parts of history, you have to acknowledge them, on all sides, and this is what I think historical fiction can do so well: show how we got from there to here.’

Anthony Marra

‘The terrain of literature is this space where you can pose these paradoxes of personal and political ethics’

Bill Morgan

‘We’ve fallen out of the habit of writing out our lives for one another, and instead we just pick up the phone.’

Daniyal Mueenuddin

‘Great translations are much rarer than great works of fiction or poetry.’

Diana McCaulay

‘I want my writing to be grounded in the real and complex place, without nostalgia or idealization.’

Dina Nayeri

‘I could shape a story before my mouth could shape the words.’

Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu talks about how he came to write ‘Big Money’, his contribution to Granta 108, his forthcoming novel, his relationship with his hometown, Chicago, and his inspiration as a writer.

Elizabeth McCracken

‘This week John Freeman spoke to Best Young American Novelist Elizabeth McCracken about her works-in-progress, a novel that broke up into six short stories, and her contribution to Granta’s latest issue.’

Emma Martin

‘I’ve occasionally caught a kind of self-consciousness stalking me when I write about New Zealand.’

Jonathan Levi

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

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’.

Henry Marsh

Issue 6

Daniel Kon

‘But you had to be on the islands to know what it was really all about.’

Karan Mahajan

‘The through line in my work that I see is how easily we can turn people into the other’