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Adam Foulds | Interview
Adam Foulds
A short film featuring Adam Foulds, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.
Introducing Chicago
John Freeman
John Freeman introduces Granta’s new issue, celebrating the city of Chicago, a cultural and artistic hub and home to some of the world’s greatest writers and thinkers.
Shobasakthi | Best Untranslated Writers
V. V. Ganeshananthan
‘Shobasakthi is also known as Anthony X; he is an ex-militant; he is an expatriate.’
Five Things Right Now: Petina Gappah
Petina Gappah
Petina Gappah shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Sarah Gerard | Five Things Right Now
Sarah Gerard
Sarah Gerard on Leonora Carrington, shoegaze music and gaslighting.
Five Things Right Now: Renee Gladman
Renee Gladman
‘I go here to slow everything down, to study shadow in a space of dreaming.’
Rachel B. Glaser | Five Things Right Now
Rachel B. Glaser
Rachel B. Glaser shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Eli Goldstone | Five Things Right Now
Eli Goldstone
‘The closest I come to meditating is sitting in front of a tumble dryer with a dead magazine.’
Mark Haddon | Podcast
Mark Haddon
‘Sean finds a log to use as a shooting gallery and sends Daniel off in search of targets.’
Sarah Hall | Five Things Right Now
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall, a Granta Best of Young British Novelist, shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about.
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.’
Highlights of 2011 | Podcast
Ted Hodgkinson
A compilation of some of the best readings of 2011, including Binyavanga Wainaina reading from his memoir One Day I Will Write About This Place, Robert Coover’s reading of his online story ‘Vampire’ and Granta debut contributor Taiye Selasi's reading of ‘The Sex Lives of African Girls’.
Julian Jackson | Interview
Julian Jackson
‘I don’t have a short answer to where I am from – but perhaps that lack of ‘place’ influences my writing voice.’
Anushka Jasraj | Interview
Anushka Jasraj
‘I’ve never really had any readership, apart from fellow writers who have been forced to read my stories in writing workshops.’
Five Things Right Now: Cynan Jones
Cynan Jones
‘A pair of seagulls. I say a pair. They might just be good friends.’
Ruchir Joshi | Interview
Ruchir Joshi
Writer and filmmaker Ruchir Joshi on his essay ‘Tracing Puppa’, Calcutta and his dreams of writing for Granta.
Shahid | Moving Parts
Ruchir Joshi
Ruchir Joshi travelled around rural India for our ‘Work’ issue, documenting parts of the country’s informal economy, and meeting people with working lives that are unseen, or unique, or damaging.
Gadi Taub | Best Untranslated Writers
Etgar Keret
‘At first, I thought the best way to introduce Gadi Taub’s powerful novel would be through its sophisticated and twist-filled plot. But the hard hitting story isn’t half as complex and unique as its protagonists.’
Karl Ove Knausgaard | The Proust Questionnaire
Karl Ove Knausgaard
'What is your most unappealing habit? Maybe all the brain-like chewing gums I leave behind everywhere I work.'
Five Things Right Now: Noelle Kocot
Noelle Kocot
‘This is not only poetic, to think of the Creator as a big bird, but also quite mysterious.’
Interviews of the Boys from the War
Daniel Kon
‘But you had to be on the islands to know what it was really all about.’
Sana Krasikov | Five Things Right Now
Sana Krasikov
‘The world is teeming with demons who are always looking for ways to screw with your good fortune.’
Nicole Krauss In Conversation
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’
Catherine Lacey | Five Things Right Now
Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Five Things Right Now: Dorothea Lasky
Dorothea Lasky
Dorothea Lasky, author of the poetry collection, Rome, shares five links of what she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
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.
Five Things Right Now: April Ayers Lawson
April Ayers Lawson
She shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Five Things Right Now: Melissa Lee-Houghton
Melissa Lee-Houghton
‘It thrills and delights me that I can now watch concerts I would’ve given several fingers to go to in the ’90s, albeit wonky though these videos are.’
Rewriting the Rules of the Game
Ian Leslie
Ian Leslie on Barack Obama's election in 2008 and forthcoming administration.
Jonathan Levi | Interview
Jonathan Levi
‘It’s a miracle that Granta survived our mutual adolescence. And yet, it was that smell of teenage spirit that brought Graham Greene and Martha Gellhorn and Hanif Kureishi to our pages.’
Lillian Li | Interview
Lillian Li
‘I don’t think I ever learned how to tell a story in the literal sense.’
