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Nicaragua: An Appeal
David Hare
‘To arrive in Nicaragua is at once to be disorientated, for since the earthquake in 1972, there has been, and is still no proper city of Managua.’
Victor LaValle reads ‘Long Distance’
Victor LaValle
Victor LaValle reads ‘Long Distance,’ an essay about the ‘most loving relationship’ of his early twenties – conducted solely by telephone – and on having sex in a new body, after losing 155 pounds.
Jon McGregor | Podcast
Jon McGregor & Ted Hodgkinson
Jon McGregor on reworking his first published story from the female perspective, his enduring fascination with Lincolnshire and his new short story collection, This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You.
Adam Foulds | Interview
Adam Foulds
A short film featuring Adam Foulds, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.
Shobasakthi | Best Untranslated Writers
V. V. Ganeshananthan
‘Shobasakthi is also known as Anthony X; he is an ex-militant; he is an expatriate.’
Dorothea Lasky and Adam Fitzgerald In Conversation
Dorothea Lasky & Adam Fitzgerald
‘I want to get to that place of cold neutrality where almost anything could work in poetry.’
Charlotte Roche | Interview
Charlotte Roche & Philip Oltermann
‘I love that image. Me flying over Germany, throwing sex bombs into people’s minds.’
Eleanor Catton | Interview
Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton, author of the critically acclaimed, Betty Trask-award-winning debut novel, The Rehearsal, talks to Granta.
Samantha Smith | Interview
Samantha Smith & Ted Hodgkinson
‘To write this memoir, I’ve had to open old wounds and go back to them again and again.’
Deborah Levy | Podcast
Deborah Levy & Ted Hodgkinson
Here Deborah Levy spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why as she wants to resist anything resembling a comfort zone and why writing fiction is about ‘finding reasons to live’.
Andrew O’Hagan | Interview
Andrew O’Hagan & Patrick Ryan
‘A lot of journalism was in danger of becoming ‘celebrity writing’, in the sense that the writer and his conscience could become the story.’
