Eimear McBride

‘Spending time in a place in which you have no personal stake breeds a peculiar kind of contemplativeness.’

Jonathan Levi

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

Sandra Newman

‘While you’re still arguing you still have hope.’

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’

Karl Ove Knausgaard

'What is your most unappealing habit? Maybe all the brain-like chewing gums I leave behind everywhere I work.'

Kseniya Melnik

Kseniya Melnik, chosen in 2010 as a Granta New Voice, shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.

Lillian Li

‘I don’t think I ever learned how to tell a story in the literal sense.’

Michael Mendis

‘Mostly, writing is part of my process of understanding the world.’

Nadifa Mohamed

A short film featuring Nadifa Mohamed, one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists.

Nicole Krauss

‘The ancient stories we tell, as beautiful as they may be, also serve to shape our conventions about who we think we are or should be’

Caleb Klaces

‘I think the infrastructure of community around fathering is very limited.’

We discuss Caleb Klaces’s debut novel, Fatherhood.