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.

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 ...

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 ...