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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.’
Anthony Shadid | Interview
Anthony Shadid & Ted Hodgkinson
‘It’s very difficult to say what kind of Iraq is going to emerge from this trauma. I think we have to wait a generation.’
Mo Yan | Interview
Mo Yan & John Freeman
‘My life is more current, more contemporary and the cutting throat cruelty of our contemporary times limits the romance that I once felt.’
Brad Feuerhelm | Podcast
Brad Feuerhelm & Ted Hodgkinson
Brad Feuerhelm spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about the stories that lie behind his images from the issue and how his work is informed by his love of horror movies.
Xiaolu Guo | Podcast
Xiaolu Guo & Ellah Alfrey
Xiaolu Guo speaks to Ellah Alfrey about growing up in rural China, becoming an East Ender and writing in English.
Helen Mort | Interview
Helen Mort & Rachael Allen
‘I think there’s something seductive and liberating about the way you can create shadowy characters in a poem.’
David Heatley | Interview
David Heatley & Simon Willis
‘There’s something magical about a pictographic doodle that’s simple enough to scan and then move on.’
Ann Patchett | Interview
Ann Patchett & Patrick Ryan
‘I grew up in an environment where there was nothing weird about limitless friendship.’
Rachel Seiffert | Podcast
Rachel Seiffert & Yuka Igarashi
Rachel Seiffert reads her work and talks to Granta about writing silences, the inescapability of history, the Troubles and learning to love her characters.
Elias Khoury | Interview
Sophia Efthimiatou & Elias Khoury
‘As the reader follows her in and out of consciousness, her history unravels and entwines with religious and social myths, and Lebanese folklore.’
Granta Portugal | Interview
Carlos Vaz Marques & Ted Hodgkinson
‘We’ve kept the issue a secret because our goal was to offer a genuine feeling of discovery to Granta Portugal’s subscribers.’
