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In Conversation: Pankaj Mishra and Aman Sethi
Pankaj Mishra & Aman Sethi
‘It is India’s turn to undergo social traumas that other countries have suffered in their pursuit of wealth and power.’
Julie Otsuka | Interview
Julie Otsuka & Patrick Ryan
‘Using the ‘we’ voice allowed me to tell a much larger story than I would have been able to tell otherwise.’
Tim Lott | Interview
Tim Lott & Helen Gordon
‘Somehow by putting things into words you’re taking a situation that feels very out of control and creating a kind of illusion of control over it.’
Mario Levrero | Best Untranslated Writers
Juan Pablo Villalobos
‘I knew he was a ‘strange’ writer, unclassifiable, with a boundless imagination, who was creating one of the most intriguing, thought-provoking bodies of work in the Spanish language.’
Peter Hobbs | Interview
Peter Hobbs & Roy Robins
‘Illness is solitary, because suffering is something you always do alone.’
Ian Teh | Interview
Ian Teh & Ted Hodgkinson
‘The pictures I take are fly-on-the-wall and open to interpretation.’
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.
Don DeLillo | Interview
Don DeLillo & Yuka Igarashi
‘The stories are representative of one slice of mind. The novels are mind, body, day and night, and what I ate for lunch.’
Turkish Granta | Interview
Berrak Gocer & Ted Hodgkinson
‘The writings, when they came together, made it very clear that there will always be a new approach to the issue of identity.’
Karen Russell | Interview
Karen Russell & Patrick Ryan
‘I think it’s impossible to draw a hard and fast line between reality and fantasy.’
Edinburgh Book Festival Special | Podcast
Kapka Kassabova & Peter Stamm
In this special Edinburgh Book Festival edition of the Granta Podcast Laura Barber talks to Kapka Kassabova (Street Without a Name, Twelve Minutes of Love) and Peter Stamm (Seven Years) about the often paradoxical relationship between writing and place.