Mathias Enard & Ian Maleney

‘I think the moral issue is being more or less truthful to what you believe in, that’s the important thing, whoever the character may be.’ Mathias Enard and Ian Maleney in Conversation

Tishani Doshi & Karthika Naïr

‘I have never felt it as a poet, and that is why I’m doubly grateful to dance, for having experienced the loneliness and the terror of the empty stage, but also, to have had that live connection.’

Teju Cole & Alice Zoo

‘Each successive image has to have the simultaneous feeling of being unanticipated and of being right.’

Teju Cole speaks to Alice Zoo about sequencing, portraiture, and the interplay between image and text.

Jonathan Levi

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

Lynne Tillman

‘Things that we love, things that we hate – we need to crack it open.’

Jon Fosse

‘To me writing is a kind of listening. I don’t know what I am listening to, but I am listening!’

Fiona Benson & Rachael Allen

‘I’ve always wanted to write from the gut, to write instinctively rather than cerebrally.’

Constantia Soteriou

We talk to the winner of the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

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’.

Teju Cole

‘What is this elsewhere that one is longing to be in? Part of the answer to this question, for me, is Switzerland.’

Sonia Shah

‘Non-native species have been blamed for being invasive the way that immigrants have been blamed for causing crime.’

Issue 1

Theodore Solotaroff & William Warner

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

Adrian Tomine & Francisco Vilhena

Henry Marsh