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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.’

P.D. Mallamo | Interview

P. D. Mallamo & Roy Robins

‘Writing and reading in third-person present is like a high-speed drive through Nevada at two a.m.: incredibly invigorating and somewhat dangerous.’

Moscow Women

Carola Hansson & Karin Lidén

‘She’s young, then suddenly she’s old, and she’s buried without knowing why she ever lived.’

Letters From Two Exit Strategists

Jacob Newberry & Vanessa Manko

‘I feel like I’ll spend a great many years unravelling whatever is being stored inside of me just now.’

Ian Teh | Interview

Ian Teh & Ted Hodgkinson

‘The pictures I take are fly-on-the-wall and open to interpretation.’

Ha Jin | Interview

Ha Jin & Helen Gordon

‘My reason for writing in English is twofold: to separate my existence from the state power of China and to preserve the integrity of my work.’

Granta em Português | Interview

Ollie Brock, Robert Feith & Marcelo Ferroni

‘It’s been a rich, multifaceted, very challenging and hugely rewarding professional experience.’

Granta China | Interview

Patrizia van Daalen, Peng Lun & Ted Hodgkinson

‘Young perspectives always facilitate access to a culture because they are more easily accepted, and it is easier, most times, to assimilate with them.’

Charlotte Roche | Interview

Charlotte Roche & Philip Oltermann

‘I love that image. Me flying over Germany, throwing sex bombs into people’s minds.’

Orhan Pamuk | Interview

Orhan Pamuk & John Freeman

‘Orhan Pamuk speaks to Granta editor John Freeman about his latest book, The Museum of Innocence.’

Urvashi Butalia | Interview

Urvashi Butalia & Saskia Vogel

‘Feminist movements everywhere in the world are born of the particular political and economic realities of the places where they exist.’

Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Interview

Rowan Ricardo Phillips & Ted Hodgkinson

‘Poetry’s strongest response, on the other hand, is determined, open-ended world-making, which is the work of empathy.’

Tao Lin | Interview

Tao Lin & Yuka Igarashi

Yuka Igarashi talks to Tao Lin about sense of place within the novel Taipei, his online presence and abstraction and metaphor in his writing.

Interview with Theodore Solotaroff

Theodore Solotaroff & William Warner

‘People belong to literary movements which are abstractions rather than to ways of life which are concrete.’