‘Creation Lake,’ Potential Booker Prize Winner: Really?
The Rachel Kushner “novel of ideas” is not what you would call good.
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Rachel Kushner
‘Choose Your Fighter’–Which Petition Side Are You On?
It’s the lit snobs versus the Jewish slobs when it comes to cultural boycotts of Israel. We side with the slobs.
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Booker Prize Nominees and Sally Rooney Up the Ante When It Comes To Literary Antisemitism
Big names sign a letter condemning Israel cultural institutions
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I Predict a Lit Riot
Ryan Chapman’s ‘Riots I Have Known,’ a Prison Novel That’s Actually a Literary Satire
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‘The Mars Room’ Has a Genius Problem
A Gritty Crime Story Told By a Writer Who Wants to be Don DeLillo
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