American writers Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize LONDON -- American writers Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner are among six finalists shortlisted ...

By Alex Marshall Reporting from London Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake,” a novel about a spy-for-hire who infiltrates an environmental activist group, and Percival Everett’s “James,” a ...

Rachel Kushner is one tough customer. She disdains sentimentality and traditional storytelling, instead challenging readers to keep up with her and not to flinch. Creation Lake is an espionage ...

Rachel Kushner’s high-art spy thriller. In Creation Lake, Kushner transforms the genre’s familiar plot twists and turns into a study of the many fictions we tell one another. In a 1974 essay ...

Kushner, another former Booker finalist with her bestseller “The Mars Room,” is a contender again with spy story “Creation Lake.” The other finalists vying for the 50,000 pound award are ...

Rachel Kushner in the apartment she bought on Norfolk Street and filled with her grandmother’s furniture, wearing “some thrift-store coat I considered ‘very Pat Nixon.’” Photo ...

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Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. Kushner scrambles conventional ideas about gender, skewering male bravado while also subverting familiar ideas of femininity.

The last time I interviewed Rachel Kushner, for a live online event for International Literature Festival Dublin during the pandemic, a tech malfunction caused her interface to shrink to a tiny ...

Rachel Kushner’s new novel, Creation Lake, longlisted for the Booker Prize, begins with a 34-year-old American mercenary, Sadie Smith, on assignment in an ancient river valley in rural France.