Rachel Kushner

Man Booker Prize Fight Week, round 2: Esi Edugyan vs Rachel Kushner

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The 2019 Man Booker prize is announced next week. Brannavan Gnanalingam reviews two of the shortlisted novels, Washington Black by Esi Edugyan and The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner. Previously in Man Booker Prize Fight Week: Philip Matthews on Robin Robertson and Richard Powers This year’s Bookers shortlist contained a few surprises – including the … Read more

Joan Didion, Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers – and now Rachel Kushner, author of a powerful new US novel

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Louisa Kasza reviews Rachel Kushner’s novel The Mars Room, which is hailed in this week’s New Yorker – alongside the US edition of Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young – as one of America’s best new books. A cool, Joan Didion-esque breeze of seeming indifference blows through the writing of US novelist Rachel Kushner. The … Read more