The author of “Creation Lake” on how artists steal from the world.

The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Rachel Kushner's Booker prize-shortlisted novel Creation Lake , a thrilling climate fiction novel that follows the adventures of a US spy-for-hire ...

Rachel Kushner's new novel "Creation Lake" is an eco-espionage story wrapped in philosophy, deception and radical politics. Sadie Smith is the operational name of a freelance spy once cast off by ...

However, you could not do this for Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake.” Here’s how Wikipedia would likely summarize the plot: Sadie Smith, the alias of a private espionage agent with a troubled past, has ...

CREATION LAKE. By Rachel Kushner. Scribner, 416 pages, $29.99. Leigh Haber is a writer, editor, and publishing strategist who for the last 10 years ran Oprah’s Book Club and curated the Reading ...

Creation Lake is fronted by a gutsy, flinty, go-getting heroine. Sadie is all the more compelling for being an amalgam of different personas.

"Creation Lake" has been long-listed for the Booker Prize. And Rachel Kushner joins us now from our studios in Culver City. Thanks so much for being with us. RACHEL KUSHNER: Thank you, Scott.