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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Ismail Kadare |Rachel Kushner |Shehan Karunatilaka |Olga Tokarczuk
If the psychological twists of The Traitors have you longing for more, these novels of ambition and betrayal will leave you questioning every motive – just like the game itself Written by Donna Mackay-Smith Publication date and time: Published January 17, 2025Murder. Banish. Recruit. With its gripping mix of seduction and strategic betrayal, BBC One’s The Traitors, a modern spin on the party game Mafia, has viewers hooked around the world.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
orangeville.com | Rachel Cusk |Michel Houellebecq |Rachel Kushner |Anne Carson
Paradeby Rachel Cusk Harper Perennial, $29.99Reading “Parade” is like driving quickly in a tiny car up the side of a steep mountain. Cusk, the author of the Outline trilogy, switchbacks bracingly between multiple narratives — all about different artists named G — as she races past comforting fictions about motherhood and art on her way to something more true. Sentence by sentence, Cusk’s command is stunning.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
newleftreview.org | Rachel Kushner
Desire is vast. Vast, absolute, and oddly general. A big general liquid washing through the universe . . . casually ruinous—an ‘Aphrodite’ as we call that throw of the dice that comes up nine and changes the game. —Anne Carson (speaking as Euripides) Jean-luc godard kept asking Brigitte Bardot to wear longer skirts.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Miranda July |Ella Baxter |Rachel Kushner
Blurring the boundaries between art and life, Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs is a stunning tale of a flawed heroine, life’s broken promises, and the lengths we’d go to for fulfillment. When Nora meets her new neighbors, an enigmatic, artistic couple and their adorable son, she falls headfirst for their glamorous way of life — and loses herself in the process. If you’ve ever wondered how the other half lives, The Woman Upstairs is a sharp, illuminating story.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Kaveh Akbar |Percival L. Everett |Jo Hamya |Eliana Hernández-Pachón |Adam Higginbotham |Rachel Kushner | +5 more
The books that made us think the most this year
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Samantha Harvey |Anne Michaels |Rachel Kushner |Percival L. Everett
Thank you for taking the time to talk to me about the Booker Prize shortlist. How many books did you have to read in your search for the best novels of 2024? And did you notice any trends among the submissions? We read 156 books. I noticed there were a lot of books focusing on issues around identity in different ways—although perhaps I’m more acutely attuned to the idea because I made an album called Identity—and reconciling the past with the present.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
cbc.ca | Rachel Kushner |Alan Hollinghurst |Sarah Chapelle |Ian Williams
Check out some of the books discussed on national CBC Radio programs between Nov. 5-12, 2024. Creation Lake by Rachel KushnerCreation Lake is a novel by Rachel Kushner. (Chloe Aftel, Scribner)Heard on:Bookends with Mattea RoachCreation Lake tells the story of Sadie, an undercover agent tasked with sabotaging a young group of activists. But as the writings of a radical thinker named Bruno start to infiltrate her mind, Sadie starts to rethink her choices and the consequences of her transient life.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
rapidcityjournal.com | Diana Chambers |Nick Harkaway |Ben Macintyre |Rachel Kushner
BOOKS | REVIEWSThere's a new book about spies hitting shelves just about every week and something for just about every taste. But with so many to choose from, it can be tricky to decide which group of double-crossers is for you. So we're here to help. Here are six of this fall's cloak-and-dagger books, each with a diff erent focus:SPIES WITH ROMANCE"The Secret War of Julia Child"By Diana R.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Rachel Kushner |Samantha Harvey |Charlotte Wood |Anne Michaels
One of the highlights of the annual Booker Prize season comes when each of the shortlisted authors is presented with a unique, hand-bound edition of their nominated works, created by Fellows from the Designer Bookbinders society. These extraordinary, one-of-a-kind books are designed and made between the shortlist announcement and winner ceremony.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Sally Rooney |Haruki Murakami |Rachel Kushner |Olga Tokarczuk
What are the novels everyone is talking about in Fall 2024? Well, the most obvious answer to this question is Sally Rooney’s latest novel, Intermezzo. Every Rooney book is a major publishing event, and this latest offering—which centres on the fraught relationship between two Irish brothers—has received rave reviews almost across the board.
