Gao Xingjian

Issue 103

Aleksandar Hemon

‘My grandmother was not my grandmother.’

Richard Watson

‘This is the story of the British jihad.’

Issue 103

Lois Williams

‘A world of soft things stacked deeply.’

Issue 99

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

‘I like to think now that he knew how much I liked him, from the beginning, and that we were both equal participants in the ritual.’

Issue 99

Kitty Hauser

‘It takes another kind of eye, another viewpoint to reveal to us the truth about the world.’

Issue 99

Roberto Saviano

‘It may seem strange, but the instant before death is marked by a sense of humiliation.’

Issue 99

Philip Hoare

‘Even in death, it seemed, whales present us with gargantuan problems.’

Ian Jack

‘Granta needs good readers as well as good writers.’

Diana Athill

‘We knew that we would give each other no trouble.’

Louise Carpenter

‘They had lived for art.’

Issue 98

Hugh Raffles

‘On the way to the cricket fight, Mr Wu slipped us a piece of paper.’

Issue 98

Paul Theroux

‘Playing a role gave him latitude and allowed him to overcome his reticence.’

Issue 98

Jeremy Seabrook

‘The dead do not leave us alone.’