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John Freeman | Interview
John Freeman & Roy Robins
‘I think you know right away if a piece of writing is good. Does it move me? Does it have intensity? Is it beautiful?’
Jonathan Raban | Interview
Jonathan Raban & Helen Gordon
‘The term ‘man of letters’ now seems hopelessly archaic, but I’d like to think there’s still life left in the notion of the writer who’s just a writer.’
Jonathan Safran Foer | Interview
Jonathan Safran Foer & Ollie Brock
‘This is the sort of book I wanted to read, wanted to have, regretted not having.’
Joshua Cohen | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Joshua Cohen & Luke Neima
‘The fact that you exist means that you have a story that's worth telling’
Juan Pablo Villalobos | Interview
Juan Pablo Villalobos & Rosalind Harvey
‘I’m not interested in ‘transparent’ or ‘objective’ narrators, I’m just looking for gripping fictional voices.’
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.’
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.’
Justin Jin | Interview
Justin Jin & Francisco Vilhena
‘This disaster has been going on for decades. I want to protest against this as loudly as I can through photography.’
Justin Torres | Interview
Justin Torres & Jennifer de Leon
‘I wanted to write a book about a family so complicated, so in love, and so flawed, that folks would resist easy categories.’
Kamila Shamsie In Conversation
Kamila Shamsie & Eleanor Chandler
‘There’s a certain adrenaline rush that comes from not knowing.’ Kamila Shamsie on writing the unsaid, the challenges of adapting Antigone and the role of the novel in politics.
Karan Mahajan | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Karan Mahajan
‘The through line in my work that I see is how easily we can turn people into the other’
