The Granta Podcast

They Always Come in the Night: Dinaw Mengestu - one of the New Yorker's 20 writers under 40 - talks to Ellah Allfrey about his visit to Eastern Congo for Granta 114: Aliens.

They Always Come in the Night: Dinaw Mengestu - one of the New Yorker's 20 writers under 40 - talks to Ellah Allfrey about his visit to Eastern Congo for Granta 114: Aliens.

An artwork special: Ollie Brock speaks to photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin about their photo essay ‘Contacts’, which appears in our new issue, ‘Aliens’; he also interviews Michael Salu, the magazine’s artistic director, about commissioning artwork and designing covers for Granta. 

An artwork special: Ollie Brock speaks to photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin about their photo essay ‘Contacts’, which appears in our new issue, ‘Aliens’; he also interviews Michael Salu, the magazine’s artistic director, about commissioning artwork and designing covers for Granta. 

For the first episode of 2011 we look ahead to our next issue, Aliens: an interview with Philip Oltermann of the Guardian. Philip reads from his piece 'The B.O.G. Standard', about moving to England as a German boy, and discusses it with Ollie Brock.

For the first episode of 2011 we look ahead to our next issue, Aliens: an interview with Philip Oltermann of the Guardian. Philip reads from his piece 'The B.O.G. Standard', about moving to England as a German boy, and discusses it with Ollie Brock.

In the second part of our Best of Spanish Language Novelists podcast Andreas Neumann talks to fellow contributors Andrés Barber, Sonia Hernåndez and Matias Néspolo. This podcast is in Spanish.

In the second part of our Best of Spanish Language Novelists podcast Andreas Neumann talks to fellow contributors Andrés Barber, Sonia Hernåndez and Matias Néspolo. This podcast is in Spanish.

In this episode, Granta's deputy editor Ellah Allfrey is joined by three of the writers featured in Granta's Best Of Young Spanis-Language Novelists issue - Santiago Roncagliolo, Andrés Felipe Solano and Andrés Neuman. They discuss their work, individually, as well as it what it means to be featured on this unprecedented and prestigious list.

In this episode, Granta's deputy editor Ellah Allfrey is joined by three of the writers featured in Granta's Best Of Young Spanis-Language Novelists issue - Santiago Roncagliolo, Andrés Felipe Solano and Andrés Neuman. They discuss their work, individually, as well as it what it means to be featured on this unprecedented and prestigious list.

In the month of publication of the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography, we revisit a Granta event in New York that celebrated the magazine's extract of the book. With John Freeman, Newsweek literary editor Malcolm Jones, Best Young American Novelist John Wray and Twain biographer and book critic Ron Powers. With readings from the extract.

In the month of publication of the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography, we revisit a Granta event in New York that celebrated the magazine's extract of the book. With John Freeman, Newsweek literary editor Malcolm Jones, Best Young American Novelist John Wray and Twain biographer and book critic Ron Powers. With readings from the extract.

In the first of a series of interviews with our Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, John Freeman speaks to Madrid-based novelist Javier Montes - who used to duck out of school to visit the Prado. On a recent visit to London, he spoke to us about the influence his work in visual arts has on his writing, having his work translated, and his novels, which have been described as 'metaphysical thrillers'

In the first of a series of interviews with our Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, John Freeman speaks to Madrid-based novelist Javier Montes - who used to duck out of school to visit the Prado. On a recent visit to London, he spoke to us about the influence his work in visual arts has on his writing, having his work translated, and his novels, which have been described as 'metaphysical thrillers'

In this episode we bring you a recording from one of the events that launched our Pakistan issue: 'Ash at Nightfall: Pakistani Poetry Then and Now'. John Freeman spoke to Dr Amina Yaqin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, and author Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose poem 'Trying Tripe' is published in our Pakistan issue, read some love poems of his own. Produced by Pixiu Productions