Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

“Even as she does not mean to comfort, I feel her — here, still right here, to tell us how it really is.”

 
By Rachel Kushner  April 1, 2025
The Hub

Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2024 Booker Prize.

By Emily Temple  November 8, 2024
In Conversation

Rachel Kushner on Crafting a Philosophical Spy Novel For an Age of Environmental Anxiety

By Jane Ciabattari  September 4, 2024
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Rachel Kushner Once Threw a Bret Easton Ellis Novel Across Her Room (and Other Tidbits)

By Rachel Kushner  September 3, 2024
New Books Tuesdays

Edwidge Danticat! Rachel Kushner! Danzy Senna! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot  September 3, 2024
The Hub

The 2024 Booker Prize longlist is here.

By James Folta  July 30, 2024
The Hub

“Every time I watch it, I’m transfixed anew.” Rachel Kushner on her favorite films.

By Emily Temple  July 1, 2024
Best of 2022

88 Writers on the Books They Loved in 2022

By Literary Hub  December 19, 2022
Crime

From Nabokov to Erdrich: Reading Complex Portraits of Criminality

By Rebecca Bernard  August 29, 2022
The Hub

Eileen Myles, Geoff Dyer, and other authors have signed an open letter supporting Sally Rooney.

By Walker Caplan  November 22, 2021
The Hub

At least one person hasn’t read Sally Rooney, and it’s Jonathan Franzen.

By Walker Caplan  October 1, 2021
Punk Rock

Rachel Kushner on One of America’s Great Unsung Punk Albums

By Rachel Kushner  August 5, 2021
Behind the Mic

The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner, Read by the Author

By Behind the Mic   June 24, 2021
Writers in Conversation

Rachel Kushner and Francisco Goldman on Autofiction, Identity, and the Novel

By Rachel Kushner  June 1, 2021
Thresholds

Rachel Kushner: Everything Behind You Is Part of Your Present Tense

By Thresholds   May 12, 2021
new books tuesday

Here are 18 fresh titles for your new books Tuesday.

By Katie Yee  April 6, 2021
new books tuesday

19 new books to celebrate today.

By Katie Yee  March 30, 2021
Reading Lists

What Fiction Can Teach Journalists: A Reading List From Maurice Chammah

By Maurice Chammah  January 29, 2021
Best of the Year

What Did You Read This Year
That You Loved?

By Literary Hub  December 18, 2020
short story

A New Story By Rachel Kushner:
“The Mayor of Leipzig”

By Rachel Kushner  December 9, 2020
The Quarantine Tapes

Rachel Kushner on Finally Having a Chance at Lasting Change

By The Quarantine Tapes  June 30, 2020
Children's Literature

21 Writers on Their Favorite Children’s Books

By Emily Temple  June 25, 2020
Reading Lists

Understanding the Complexities of Cuba: A Reading List

By Anthony DePalma  June 4, 2020
The Decade That Was

100 Books That Defined the Decade

By Emily Temple  December 28, 2019
The Best of the Decade

The 20 Best Novels of the Decade

By Emily Temple  December 23, 2019
The Best of 2019

Some of Our Favorite Writers on the Best Books They Read in 2019

By Freeman's   December 20, 2019
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