Good at: Skiing (started at 3 and skied alone til age ... Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette: vicious and hilarious, Manchette was a new discovery for me about three years ago.

In Creation Lake, a hard-drinking American spy infiltrates a radical farming collective in a remote region of France. Kushner ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 in the apartment she bought on Norfolk ... We had to pick it up in New Jersey, and it started to snow. On a bridge in Pennsylvania, there was a truck behind us that lost control ...

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 ... lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review. ‘The Power Broker’ at 50: ...

Rachel Kushner’s extraordinary new novel, Creation Lake, is a worthy heir to this tradition of linguistic deviousness. Set in present-day France, the book delivers, among other things ...