Rachel Kushner with Autumn Phillips: Creation Lake

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024. Join Rachel Kushner as she discusses her wickedly funny and unnerving book, Creation Lake. A reimagination of the spy novel, it explores environmental destruction and the complexities of survival in a rapidly changing world. The novel revolves around an unlikely female spy tasked with infiltrating a group of eco-activists in rural France, where she follows a trail from Neanderthals to modernity. “A novel this brilliant and profound shouldn’t be so much fun,”—Hernan Diaz. She discusses her novel of espionage and ideas with Autumn Philipps, Post and Courier Editor at Large. 

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