Rachel Kushner Wants to Radicalize the Novel

Written By Madelyn S

Jacobin, May 16, 2021: Rachel Kushner Wants to Radicalize the Novel

“Jacobin’s Meagan Day spoke to Kushner about bourgeois writing and its discontents, the intrigue of Italian autonomism, Israel’s humiliation of the Palestinians, the successes and failures of the Bernie Sanders campaign, and the revolutionary spirit of the George Floyd uprising.”

Additional reading:

LitHub, January 16, 2019: Lauren Groff and Rachel Kushner Talk Prisons, Prairies, and Power

Financial Times, July 6, 2018: Novelist Rachel Kushner: ‘In US prison there is no redemption’

Bookforum, April/May 2018: Of Infamous Women: Rachel Kushner’s prison novel

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