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The National Language
Uzma Aslam Khan & Aamer Hussein
‘It gives me two languages to play with in my writing. It also gives me two languages to love and curse in.’
Gary Shteyngart | Interview
Gary Shteyngart & Emily Greenhouse
‘I can’t even afford to have thoughts on London, much less live or visit there.’
Ben Folds and Nick Hornby | Interview
Ben Folds, Nick Hornby & John Freeman
Ben Folds and Nick Hornby talk to John Freeman about literature, music and their new collaborative album.
Anthony Doerr | Interview
Anthony Doerr & Patrick Ryan
‘The natural world is full of records and erasures.’
Toby Litt | Interview
Toby Litt & Ollie Brock
‘I wanted to write a minimalist romance, so I needed to have plenty of Love and Death. A dead human heart is both.’
Anne Rowe | Interview
Anne Rowe
‘From her letters we learn about the woman as opposed to the writer. Iris Murdoch’s philosophy and fiction reveal her rational public face; in her letters she speaks from the heart.’
Elizabeth McCracken | Interview
Elizabeth McCracken
‘This week John Freeman spoke to Best Young American Novelist Elizabeth McCracken about her works-in-progress, a novel that broke up into six short stories, and her contribution to Granta’s latest issue.’
Music and Memory
Various Contributors
‘There was a time when I discovered that the best way to remember things was with the accompaniment of very loud music.’
Bill Morgan | Interview
Bill Morgan
‘We’ve fallen out of the habit of writing out our lives for one another, and instead we just pick up the phone.’
Philippe Claudel | Interview
Philippe Claudel & Emily Greenhouse
‘The modern novel can’t sidestep or ignore the idea of evil on an industrial level’
Translating Sex
Natasha Wimmer & Ollie Brock
‘I won’t say that the mood of a scene doesn’t affect me, but I’m not the translating equivalent of a Method actor.’
