Granta 170: Winners is out this week. In this episode, we speak to Declan Ryan about his essay on the... more

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the film director Wang Xiaoshuai, known for the films Beijing... more

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Allen Bratton, whose short stories Barbarism and Honeymoon have been... more

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Alan Hollinghurst, author of seven novels including The Swimming-Pool Library,... more

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and essayist Rachel Kushner, author of the books... more

In this episode of the Granta podcast we speak to the novelist and journalist Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision (2005)... more

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist Sheila Heti, author of the books How Should... more

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and journalist Andrew O’Hagan, author of seven novels... more

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and critic Lauren Oyler, author of No Judgement... more

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life (2020) and... more

In 2022 Jamaica Kincaid spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about childhood, the concept of memory and her early love of... more

Last year Claire-Louise Bennett and editor Josie Mitchell talked about rereading, resisting homogenisation and committing to the process of unravelling.... more

In 2022 Lynne Tillman and editor Josie Mitchell discussed the afterlife of novels, haunted houses and the sexual revolution. ... more

In 2022 Vanessa Onwuemezi spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring, sitting with strangeness and... more

In 2022 Anthony Anaxagorou and editor Josie Mitchell talked about heritage, national identity and poetry that cannot keep still. ... more

In 2022 Ayanna Lloyd Banwo spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about a fear of forgetting, Lapeyrouse Cemetery and our cultural... more

In 2022 Mary Gaitskill talked to editor Josie Mitchell about her fascination with the idea of hell, returning to past... more

In 2021 Eula Biss talked to editor Josie Mitchell on the distortions of capital, bartering with Pokémon cards and the... more

Last year Stephanie Sy-Quia spoke to online editor Josie Mitchell about modern cathedrals, telling her grandmothers’ stories and the impulse... more

Last year Tice Cin spoke to Josie Mitchell about poetry, brutalist architecture and returning home. Tice Cin is... more

In 2021 Anuk Arudpragasam spoke to Josie Mitchell about the influence of Thomas Bernhard, writing in the wake of war... more

Back in the early summer of 2020, the writer Kathryn Scanlan joined Josie Mitchell to talk about her story collection,... more

Joanna Kavenna joins Josie Mitchell to discuss Zed – a sci-fi dystopia exploring our fears about the psychological cost of... more

Caleb Klaces joins Josie Mitchell to talk about about his debut novel, Fatherhood – his poet’s account of becoming a... more

Sophie Mackintosh speaks to editor Josie Mitchell about her new novel, Blue Ticket. They talk about what it means to... more

Ottessa Moshfegh joined Josie Mitchell to talk about about her novel, Death in Her Name. They discuss the ‘perfect storm’... more

Carmen Maria Machado discusses her new memoir, In the Dream House, with Josie Mitchell. They discuss memory as architecture, formal... more

Josie Mitchell talks to Momtaza Mehri about her pamphlet, Doing the Most with the Least, out with Goldsmiths Shorts. They... more

Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation, talks to editor Josie Mitchell about her new novel, Weather. They discuss pre-apocalypse... more

Sandra Newman is the author of the novels The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, Cake, The Country of... more

Maureen N. McLane reads from her book My Poets. My Poets begins its first chapter ‘proem, in the form of... more

Kamila Shamsie is the author of seven novels and one book of non-fiction. Among many other accolades, Kamila is a... more

In this episode of the Granta podcast, Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers reads ‘False Blood’... more

In this episode of the Granta podcast, Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland, reads Kathleen Collins’s short story, ‘The Uncle’, taken... more

In this episode of the Granta podcast, Josie Mitchell speaks with Andrea Stuart about her essay ‘Travels in Pornland’. They... more

Luke Neima talks to George Saunders about his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. They discuss the pressures on Abraham... more

In this edition of the Granta podcast, editor Luke Neima talks to Diane Williams, the author of eight books of... more

Rosalind Porter reads Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘The Husband Stitch’. The story was first published in 2015, and went on to... more

In this edition of the Granta Podcast, editor Ka Bradley speaks with Madeleine Thien about her book, Do Not Say... more

In this edition of the Granta podcast we speak to Astrid Alben, who reads a selection from her book of... more