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 ...

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

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

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" 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.