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Greg Jackson | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Greg Jackson & Luke Neima
‘A lot of writing is confronting your own failure, again and again and again’
Anthony Marra | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Anthony Marra
‘The terrain of literature is this space where you can pose these paradoxes of personal and political ethics’
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’
Jen George | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Jen George
Jen George shares her process of translating visual art into text
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’
Chinelo Okparanta | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Chinelo Okparanta & Luke Neima
‘As a person in the diaspora sometimes you ask yourself, well who will claim you? And then it really is up to you to claim a place for yourself.’
Catherine Lacey | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Catherine Lacey & Luke Neima
Catherine Lacey discuses voice, characterization and the minute details that bring a story to life
Nicole Krauss In Conversation
Nicole Krauss
‘The ancient stories we tell, as beautiful as they may be, also serve to shape our conventions about who we think we are or should be’
Catherine Lacey | Five Things Right Now
Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Peter Stamm on To the Back of Beyond
Peter Stamm & Luke Neima
Peter Stamm on the drive of freedom in literature, German Romanticism and narrational technique.
The New Man | Devorah Baum and Josh Appignanesi in Conversation with Hisham Matar
Devorah Baum, Josh Appignanesi & Hisham Matar
What are the merits of the institution of marriage? What divides art and reality? And are our relationships all performative?
Sarah Hall and Tessa Hadley In Conversation
Sarah Hall & Tessa Hadley
‘Literature is that odd paradox: an artifice that somehow truthfully engages the reader, the mind, the emotions, the self, in essential communion.’
