Tucker Carlson and National Conservatism
What is it about Tucker Carlson that unites the divergent ideologies of national conservatism? In July 2019, the writer and historian Thomas Meaney attended the first National Conservatism Conference in Washington, where Tucker Carlson, Peter Thiel, and other right-wing thinkers sought to expand ...
Post-War Germany
Re-invention and moral struggles are at the heart of the story of post-war Germany traced by Frank Trentmann in his new book Out of the Darkness. Anne McElvoy talks to him, to Thomas Meaney the new editor of Granta who is bringing out an edition called Deutschland, to journalist Stefanie Bolzen a...
The Vampires Ball: Thomas Meaney at the Munich Security Conference
ATEOH discusses Thomas Meaney's latest for Harper's.
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Granta's Chinese Literature Issue: A Chat with Editor Thomas Meaney
The British literary quarterly Granta has published a new issue dedicated to Chinese writers, featuring familiar mainstays of contemporary literature and some fresh new voices. This week on Sinica, I chatted with Thomas Meaney, editor of Granta, about what's happening in the literary scene in Chi...
Nico Walker, The Granta Podcast
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’, published in Granta 170: Winners, which considers American football as a reflection of the country’s violence, the intimate relationship between the military ...
#173 - A Buddy, A Dummy, A Deadman (Southwark, London, British)
On the night of Thursday 7th December 1950, 42-year old William Donoghue stabbed 74-year-old Thomas Meaney to death. The two men had met that night (as friends of a friend), they got on well, they had been drinking and then they fell asleep. The attack was unprovoked and frenzied. And yet, this w...
Sujatha Gidla, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta podcast, we speak to Sujatha Gidla, author of Ants Among Elephants: an Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India. Gidla’s essay, ‘I Am My Mother’s Older Brother’, about dementia and caring for her mother, appeared in Granta 173: India.
We discuss the history ...
Christopher Bollas, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta podcast, we speak with Christopher Bollas, a leading figure in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and author of the forthcoming Essential Aloneness and Streams of Consciousness. A wide-ranging interview about his life and work appeared in Granta 174: Therapy.
In this...
Olga Ravn, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta podcast, we are joined by Olga Ravn, author of The Employees, My Work and, most recently, The Wax Child.
We discuss Tove Ditlevsen, technology, the difference between consciousness and intelligence, as well as her short story ’The High Priestess’, which appeared in ...
The CIA Watched Him Die — Then Classified His File Forever
Frantz Fanon arrived in Washington on October 3, 1961 — and the CIA was already waiting. Declassified memos labeled him a "political problem" before he ever reached a hospital.For ten days, while leukemia advanced untreated, Fanon sat in a Dupont Circle hotel under the alias Ibrahim Omar Fanon. E...
