Now, Rachel Kushner has written a novel where the protagonist IS the informant and provocateur—it’s called Creation Lake,and it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and longlisted for the ...

In Creation Lake, a hard-drinking American spy infiltrates a radical farming collective in a remote region of France. Kushner challenges readers to keep up with her and not to flinch.

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 ...

Book review. Creation Lake: A Novel. By Rachel Kushner Scribner: 416 pages, $29.99 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support ...

The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Rachel Kushner's Booker prize-shortlisted novel Creation Lake , a thrilling climate fiction novel that follows the adventures of a US spy-for-hire ...

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 ...

Creation Lake is not a conventional spy novel, but, unlike Kushner’s shaggy earlier books, it often feels as tight as a thriller. Sadie’s “secret bosses” have sent her to the Guyenne not ...

If “Creation Lake” doesn’t have quite the same propulsive energy as Eleanor Catton’s environmental thriller “Birnam Wood” (2023), that’s only because Kushner is so continually lured ...

Bruno Lacombe, the anticivilization guru in Rachel Kushner’s novel “Creation Lake,” has a thing for Neanderthals. Bruno, an aging revolutionary, has retreated from the world to live in a ...

"Creation Lake" has been long-listed for the Booker Prize. And Rachel Kushner joins us now from our studios in Culver City. Thanks so much for being with us. RACHEL KUSHNER: Thank you, Scott.

Read an excerpt below. "Creation Lake" by Rachel Kushner. Prefer to listen? Audible has a 30-day free trial available right now.. Neanderthals were prone to depression, he said. He said they were ...