Books by Rachel Kushner and Percival Everett Make Booker Prize Shortlist
The shortlist, revealed during an event in London, also includes Yael van der Wouden’s “ The Safekeep ,” an erotically-charged novel about a Dutch woman who unexpectedly falls for her brother’s girlfriend, and Samantha Harvey’s “ Orbital ,” about six astronauts circling the earth on a space station.
For the most part, Rachel Kushner’s fourth novel succeeds as a fiercely intelligent and richly entertaining story of a woman learning more about who she is and where she came from while deep ...
Kushner seduces us with femme fatale Smith – a cynical, morally dubious spy who manipulates and exploits the eco-activists ...
Creation Lake is currently longlisted for the Booker Prize. Our reviewer believes it’s one of the most important novels to ...
The Booker Prize-nominated author also recalls daydreaming about Sasquatch and how that informed an element of the novel.
In Creation Lake, a hard-drinking American spy infiltrates a radical farming collective in a remote region of France. Kushner ...
Rachel Kushner's new novel "Creation Lake" is an eco-espionage story wrapped in philosophy, deception and radical politics. Sadie Smith is the operational name of a freelance spy once cast off by the ...
In an election year, the Yiddish word 'schlub' provides a handy, if somewhat gendered, way to separate the competent from the ...
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