By the lore. The wild history, unsung,” Rachel Kushner writes in The Hard Crowd, her 2021 essay collection. “People crowd in ...

The MSNBC host says that Trump’s authoritarian message is timeless. “You can sell [it] to people who are in great need of relief,” she says. “But you can also sell it to billionaires ...

Booker 2024 shortlist and National Book Award longlist nominee Rachel Kushner, author of “Creation Lake” and other acclaimed novels, gave the keynote address at the annual Blackburn Literary Festival ...

Mrs. Oz-Salzberger is a noted historian. Last week, Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner, and a thousand other authors signed a petition to not work with Israeli publishers, festivals, literary agencies, and ...

In "Creation Lake" (Scribner), a tricky comic thriller from Rachel Kushner, a female American secret agent infiltrates a rural French commune of environmental terrorists who follow a mysterious ...

The novelist on the innocence of the 1970s, cherishing life as it is, and Roxy Music. By New Statesman Rachel Kushner was born in 1968 in Eugene, Oregon. She is an award-winning author and Guggenheim ...

Not in Rachel Kushner’s hands. She is the author of three previous novels, including 2018’s Booker Prize-shortlisted The Mars Room, and many searingly intelligent essays for outlets such as ...

"Creation Lake" by Rachel Kushner (Scribner) looks like a spy thriller, but it's even trickier than that. The narrator is a freelance agent who specializes in infiltrating radical groups.

Kushner’s colorful, character-driven debut succinctly captures the essence of life for a gilded circle of American expats in pre-Castro Cuba, chronicling a mélange of philandering spouses ...

Sadie Smith arrives in a French village with an impeccable referral for the anarcho-primitive commune based there. An ...

Rachel Kushner is the author of Creation Lake, which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, as well as the bestselling novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, short story ...