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Moscow Women
Carola Hansson & Karin Lidén
‘She’s young, then suddenly she’s old, and she’s buried without knowing why she ever lived.’
Ruchir Joshi | Interview
Ruchir Joshi
Writer and filmmaker Ruchir Joshi on his essay ‘Tracing Puppa’, Calcutta and his dreams of writing for Granta.
Zadie Smith | Interview
Zadie Smith & Ted Hodgkinson
Zadie Smith on writing tighter sentences, the ‘essential hubris’ of criticism and why novelists prefer writing in their pyjamas.
Anthony Doerr | Interview
Anthony Doerr & Patrick Ryan
‘The natural world is full of records and erasures.’
Interviews of the Boys from the War
Daniel Kon
‘But you had to be on the islands to know what it was really all about.’
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.’
Letters from One Young Poet to Another
Caleb Klaces & Soledad Marambio
‘I do like to think of my poems as messages.’
Louis de Bernières | Interview
Anita Sethi
‘At four o’clock in the morning, when Louis de Bernières has lines of poetry repeating in his head which won’t stop gnawing away, he writes them down.‘
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.’
Nadifa Mohamed | Interview
Nadifa Mohamed
A short film featuring Nadifa Mohamed, one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists.
Evie Wyld | Interview
Evie Wyld & Roy Robins
‘When I was at school I found I received the same satisfaction from writing a short story that I did doing awful self-portraits – only the results were much better.’
