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Karan Mahajan, The Granta Podcast

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Karan Mahajan, author of Family Planning, The Association of Small Bombs and the forthcoming The Com...

Zoe Dubno, The Granta Podcast

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Zoe Dubno, author of Happiness and Love (2025), whose short story ‘The Full Package’ appeared in...

Guadalupe Nettel, The Granta Podcast

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Guadalupe Nettel, author of four novels and three collections of short stories, including the most r...

Diane Williams, The Granta Podcast

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Diane Williams, author of eleven books of fiction, including the short story collection I Hear You’...

Tao Lin, The Granta Podcast

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Tao Lin, the author of ten books, including Leave Society and Taipei.We discuss two of Tao Lin’s r...

Susie Boyt, The Granta Podcast

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Susie Boyt, the author of seven novels, most recently Loved and Missed, and the memoir My Judy Garla...

Nico Walker, The Granta Podcast

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Nico Walker, author of the novel Cherry. We discuss Nico Walker’s essay ‘Mucker Play’, publi...

Declan Ryan, The Granta Podcast

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Granta 170: Winners is out this week. In this episode, we speak to Declan Ryan about his essay on the British heavyweight boxing today, ‘The Hurt Bu...

Wang Xiaoshuai, The Granta Podcast

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the film director Wang Xiaoshuai, known for the films Beijing Bicycle (2001) and So Long, My Son (2...

Allen Bratton, The Granta Podcast

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Allen Bratton, whose short stories Barbarism and Honeymoon have been published online at granta.com...

Alan Hollinghurst, The Granta Podcast

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Rachel Kushner, The Granta Podcast

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and essayist Rachel Kushner, author of the books The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, Tel...

Benjamin Kunkel, The Granta Podcast

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Sheila Heti, The Granta Podcast

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist Sheila Heti, author of the books How Should a Person Be?, Motherhood and Pure Colour. ...

Andrew O’Hagan, The Granta Podcast

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and journalist Andrew O’Hagan, author of seven novels and several books of non-ficti...

Lauren Oyler, The Granta Podcast

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and critic Lauren Oyler, author of No Judgement (2024) and Fake Accounts (2024), about...

Brandon Taylor, The Granta Podcast

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life (2020) and The Late Americans (2023), about natura...

Jamaica Kincaid, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 111

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Claire-Louise Bennett, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 110

05 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Lynne Tillman, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 109

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Vanessa Onwuemezi, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 108

21 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Anthony Anaxagorou, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 107

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 106

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Mary Gaitskill, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 105

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 2022 Mary Gaitskill talked to editor Josie Mitchell about her fascination with the idea of hell, returning to past creative work and writing charac...

Eula Biss, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 104

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Stephanie Sy-Quia, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 103

10 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Tice Cin, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 102

03 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last year Tice Cin spoke to Josie Mitchell about poetry, brutalist architecture and returning home. Tice Cin is an interdisciplinary artist from north...

Anuk Arudpragasam, The Granta Podcast Ep. 101

27 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Kathryn Scanlan, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 100

18 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Back in the early summer of 2020, the writer Kathryn Scanlan joined Josie Mitchell to talk about her story collection, The Dominant Animal. They discu...

Joanna Kavenna, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 99

11 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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

Caleb Klaces, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 98

04 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Caleb Klaces joins Josie Mitchell to talk about about his debut novel, Fatherhood – his poet’s account of becoming a father.Back at the beginning ...

Sophie Mackintosh, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 97

28 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sophie Mackintosh speaks to editor Josie Mitchell about her new novel, Blue Ticket. They talk about what it means to be pregnancy-adjacent, the bloodt...

Ottessa Moshfegh, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 96

21 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ottessa Moshfegh joined Josie Mitchell to talk about about her novel, Death in Her Name.They discuss the ‘perfect storm’ trapping us inside with o...

Carmen Maria Machado, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 95

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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

Momtaza Mehri, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 94

07 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Josie Mitchell talks to Momtaza Mehri about her pamphlet, Doing the Most with the Least, out with Goldsmiths Shorts. They discuss the value of self-in...

Jenny Offill, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 93

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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

Sandra Newman: The Granta Podcast Ep. 92

28 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sandra Newman is the author of the novels The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, Cake, The Country of Ice Cream Star and four non-fiction books inc...

Maureen N. McLane: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 91

23 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Maureen N. McLane reads from her book My Poets. My Poets begins its first chapter ‘proem, in the form of a Q&A’, which is what you hear at the...

Kamila Shamsie: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 90

24 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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

Max Porter reads Will Self: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 89

14 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Granta podcast, Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers reads ‘False Blood’ by Will Self. Diagnosed with a r...

Margo Jefferson reads Kathleen Collins: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 88

19 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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

Andrea Stuart: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 87

04 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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

George Saunders In Conversation: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 86

10 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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

Diane Williams: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 85

27 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this edition of the Granta podcast, editor Luke Neima talks to Diane Williams, the author of eight books of fiction and founder and editor of the d...

Ros Porter reads Carmen Maria Machado: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 84

31 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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

Madeleine Thien: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 83

03 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In this edition of the Granta Podcast, editor Ka Bradley speaks with Madeleine Thien about her book, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which has recently be...

Astrid Alben: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 82

19 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In this edition of the Granta podcast we speak to Astrid Alben, who reads a selection from her book of poetry Plainspeak, discusses her work as a tran...

The Irish Writing Boom: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 81

06 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In our latest podcast, Joanna Walsh discusses the Irish Writing Boom with Sarah Davis-Goff of Tramp Press; Susan Tomaselli, editor of Gorse Journal; a...

Sally Rooney and Joanna Walsh: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 80

06 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Sally Rooney and Joanna Walsh: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 80 by Granta Magazine

New Irish Writing: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 79

09 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ireland has one of the world's most distinguished literary traditions. In Granta 135: New Irish Writing, we showcase contemporary Irish fiction, ...

No Man’s Land: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 78

02 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Last year we celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, but the legacy of war and communism lives on in eastern Europe. In th...

Patrick deWitt and Neel Mukherjee: The Granta Podcast Ep. 77

18 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Neel Mukherjee and Patrick deWitt discuss their books, Undermajordomo Minor and The Lives of Others, subconscious influence, the power of the exclamat...

Hiromi Kawakami: The Granta Podcast Ep. 76

20 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Hiromi Kawakami is a novelist, haiku poet, literary critic and essayist. Her books include 'Manazuru, Pasuta mashiin yūrei' ('Pasta Ma...

Ruth Ozeki: The Granta Podcast Ep. 75

31 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Ruth Ozeki is the author of 'My Year of Meats', 'All Over Creation' and 'A Tale for the Time Being', which was shortlist...

Mark Gevisser and Jonny Steinberg: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 74

13 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest Granta podcast, Mark Gevisser and Jonny Steinberg discuss recent South African history, their personal relationship to Johannesburg, and...

Lindsey Hilsum: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 73

22 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Lindsey Hilsum is International Editor of Channel Four News and the author of ‘Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution’.In 1994 she was the onl...

Juan Pablo Villalobos: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 72

18 Sep 2013

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest Granta podcast, we’re joined by Juan Pablo Villalobos, author of 'Down the Rabbit Hole', which was nominated for the 2011 Gu...

Eleanor Catton: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 71

10 Sep 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Eleanor Catton’s debut novel, The Rehearsal, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and the Dylan Thomas Prize, longlisted for The Orang...

Lina Wolff: The Granta Podcast Ep. 70

27 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Granta speaks to Lina Wolff, author of the story collection 'Många människor dör som du' ('Many Pepole Die Like You') and the n...

Sonia Faleiro: The Granta Podcast Ep. 69

21 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest Granta podcast, Saskia Vogel speaks to Sonia Faleiro, a contributor to the Travel issue and a reporter. Faleiro is the author of a book ...

Robert Macfarlane: The Granta Podcast Ep. 68

09 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest Granta podcast, Rachael Allen speaks to travel writer Robert Macfarlane. Macfarlane is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Pla...

Rebecca Solnit: The Granta Podcast Ep. 67

17 Jun 2013

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest Granta podcast, Yuka Igarashi speaks to writer, journalist and activist Rebecca Solnit. Solnit is the author of numerous books about art...

A.M. Homes: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 66

07 Jun 2013

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest Granta podcast, Yuka Igarashi talks to A.M. Homes, the recipient of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for May We Be Forgiven. Ho...

George Saunders: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 65

05 Jun 2013

Contributed by Lukas

On the latest Granta podcast we hear from George Saunders. One of the finest, funniest writers of his generation, he writes stories that pulse with ou...

Tahmima Anam: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 64

03 Jun 2013

Contributed by Lukas

The final in our series of podcasts featuring the Best of Young British Novelists 4, we hear from Tahmima Anam. Anam is the author of the Bengal Trilo...

Steven Hall: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 63

31 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing our series of podcasts on the Best of Young British Novelists 4, we hear from Steven Hall. Born in Derbyshire, Hall’s first novel, The Ra...

Jenni Fagan: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 62

23 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing our series of podcasts on the Best of Young British Novelists 4, we hear from Jenni Fagan. Fagan’s critically acclaimed debut novel, The ...

Kamila Shamsie: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 61

23 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing our Best of Young British Novelists we hear from Kamila Shamsie. Shamsie is the author of five novels. The first, In the City by the Sea, w...

Ross Raisin: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 60

22 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Ross Raisin’s first novel, God’s Own Country, about a disturbed adolescent living in the Yorkshire Dales, won him the 2009 Sunday Times Young Writ...

Nadifa Mohamed: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 59

22 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Nadifa Mohamed. Mohamed was born i...

Sunjeev Sahota: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 58

21 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Sunjeev Sahota. Sahota was born in...

Ben Markovits: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 57

21 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Benjamin Markovits is the author of six books: The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter and Playing Days as well as a trilogy on the life of Lord Byron ...

Helen Oyeyemi: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 56

20 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

In our latest instalment of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, we speak to Helen Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi is the author of The Icarus Gir...

Adam Thirlwell: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 55

17 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Our latest instalment of podcasts for our Best of Young British Novelist features Adam Thirlwell. Thirlwell is the author of the novels Politics and T...

Sarah Hall: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 54

16 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

In our latest installment of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, we speak to Sarah Hall. Hall was born in Cumbria and lives in Nor...

Xiaolu Guo: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 53

13 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Xiaolu Guo. Guo studied at the Bei...

David Szalay: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 52

08 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with David Szalay. Szalay was born in C...

Joanna Kavenna: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 51

07 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Joanna Kavenna. Kavenna grew up in...

Naomi Alderman: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 50

29 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest Granta Podcast we bring you an interview with Best of Young British Novelist, Naomi Alderman. Described by Rachel Seiffert as ‘someone...

Taiye Selasi: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 49

23 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Taiye Selasi. Selasi was born in L...

Evie Wyld: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 48

18 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing a series of podcasts on our Best of Young British Novelists 4, today we bring you an interview with Evie Wyld. Wyld’s first novel, After ...

Adam Foulds: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 47

16 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Best of Young British Novelist Adam Foulds, the author of two novels including Booker shortlisted The Quickening Maze and the Costa Book Award winning...

James Lasdun: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 46

27 Feb 2013

Contributed by Lukas

James Lasdun talks about his most recent memoir, Give Me Everything You Have, about being stalked by a fomer writng student.

Colin Robinson: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 45

28 Jan 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Colin Robinson reads from his memoir 'Paddleball' in Granta 122: Betrayal and discusses how an old brotherly friction re-emerged during a ga...

Mohsin Hamid: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 44

16 Jan 2013

Contributed by Lukas

The author of 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist', Mohsin Hamid, talks to John Freeman about the extract from his latest novel 'How to Get F...

Sean Borodale: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 43

07 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Granta New Poet Sean Borodale discusses his debut collection Bee Journal, shortlisted for he TS Eliot prize, with online editor Ted Hodgkinson.

Robert Olen Butler: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 42

07 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Olen Butler reads his story 'Banyan' and talks to Ted Hodgkinson about how memory can be like compost and why every story is a search...

Michel Laub: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 41

03 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Michel Laub reads from his story in Best of Young Brazilian Novelists and discusses trespassing and fathers.

Vinicius Jatoba & Jethro Soutar: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 40

28 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Best of Young Brazilian Novelist Vinicius Jatobá and his translator Jethro Soutar on the challenges and intimacy of translation.

Deborah Levy: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 39

19 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Deborah Levy spoke to Ted Hodgkinson about being shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel, Swimming Home.

Alison Moore: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 38

18 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Alison Moore talks to John Freeman about her debut novel, The Lighthouse, which was shortlisted for the Man Booke Prize. 

Jeet Thayil: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 37

17 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jeet Thayil talks to Ted Hodgkinson abot his Booker shortisted novel, Narcopolis.

Tan Twan Eng: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 36

16 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Booker shortlisted author Tan Twan Eng talks to John Freeman about The Garden of Eveing Mists.

D.T. Max: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 35

08 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

D.T. Max on his biography: 'Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace'.

Claire Vaye Watkins: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 34

13 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Claire Vaye Watkins on her debut story collection Battleborn, finding ritual in relationships and drawing inspiration from cartoons, mythology and Pau...

Peter Stamm: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 33

19 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Pete Stamm reads from his novel Seven Years and discusses imagining his characters as buildings and whether people, in life and in his fiction, can ch...

Jo Shapcott & George Szirtes: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 32

13 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Poets Jo Shapcott and George Szirtes on their poems inspired by Titian's interpetations of Ovid.

Sam Byers: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 31

29 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Byers talks about being introduced in Granta 119: Britain, turning office life into fiction and writing women.

Rachel Seiffert: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 30

15 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Seiffert talks to Yuka Igarashi about her new fiction in the Britain issue.

Mark Haddon: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 29

18 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Haddon, author of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time' talks about his latest novel, 'The Red House' and his s...