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The Leather Boys (1964) Cannes won’t announce the lineup for its 2021 edition until May 27, but the annual round of speculation has already begun. Little White Lies’ Charles Bramesco offer overviews of the likeliest contenders, while the team at Screen goes all in with a comprehensive region-by-region guide to well over a hundred projects either on the verge of completion or standing by and waiting for a call. Even if less than half of them actually end up heading to France, Screen’s ...

Rachel Kushner on What She Takes From Art (and Artists) Her books are filled with insights into art world types and their relationships to the wider world. At her home in Los Angeles, Rachel Kushner talks about “The Hard Crowd,” her new book of essays on cultural criticism, and her enduring interest in visual art.Credit...Clifford Prince King for The New York Times By Jonathan Griffin April 23, 2021, 9:01 a.m. ET LOS ANGELES — At one point in Rachel Kushner’s recently published novella,...

Author, Rachel Kushner. Photo by Gabby Laurent. An illegal motorcycle race, a Palestinian refugee camp, the prison abolition movement, the writer Clarice Lispector, a notable Italian movie, a young life in the music scene of San Francisco, and more: Rachel Kushner speaks about creating a through line for a career-spanning collection of nineteen essays in “The Hard Crowd.” These essays plunge into worlds pulsing with life beyond the writer; and she says the essays...

‘I finally found a use for Facebook’: Rachel Kushner. Photograph: Barry J Holmes ‘I finally found a use for Facebook’: Rachel Kushner. Photograph: Barry J Holmes The acclaimed essayist and novelist on the genius of Don DeLillo, the temptation of motorbikes, and being swept away by CocoRosie Sat 17 Apr 2021 10.00 EDT Born in Eugene, Oregon in 1968, writer Rachel Kushner studied political economy at UC Berkeley and earned an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. Sh...

Print this article The trouble with being cool is that you have to make it look natural, effortless, almost accidental, and maybe inevitable. It isn’t a simple matter of the interests you’ve cultivated, the freewheeling eccentrics you’ve assembled as a tribe, the life you’ve lived, and the stories you can tell about it. Just as the Renaissance courtier had his sprezzatura, the modern badass must maintain an air of grace and nonchalance, never letting show the glue and cardboard and twi...

There’s a minor character that appears in Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers, one of many artists the novel depicts. But the woman—Giddle, as she’s called—is nothing so recognizable as a sculptor or filmmaker. Rather, her art consists of taking a job as a waitress and becoming “a girl working in a diner, glancing out the windows as she cleaned the counter in small circles with a damp rag.” A cousin to the fictional Giddle is the real-life Johnny Sherrill, a friend of Kushner’s ...

10 New Books We Recommend This Week April 15, 2021 Some readers are waiting for the next installment in Robert Caro’s multivolume Lyndon Johnson biography as avidly as George R. R. Martin fans eager for “The Winds of Winter” to arrive at last. (Some, I suppose, are at the edge of their seats waiting for both.) If you are among them, why not bide your time with Julia Sweig’s substantial new biography of Johnson’s wife, “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight”? Our reviewer, Mimi ...

(2018), wrote the essay in question, “Girl on a Motorcycle,” in 2001 for an anthology titled She’s a Bad Motorcycle: Writers on Riding . Describing her first bike, a 500cc Moto Guzzi, Kushner’s voice has all the confidence, wisdom, and cool of her later work. “Motorcycles didn’t enter my own life as gifts from men or ways to travel to men,” Kushner asserts, “but as machines to be ridden.” The piece goes on to describe something called the Cabo 1000, an illegal and dangerous t...

6 book recommendations from Rachel Kushner The Week Staff Todays best articles Daily business briefing magazine named one of the 21st centurys new classics. Her new essay collection, The Hard Crowd , compiles 20 years of journalism and criticism. Ditlevsen was a 20th-century Danish writer who died by her own hand. Her trilogy of short memoirs, Childhood, Youth, and Dependency, is becoming the subject of a literary craze. As soon as you sink you...

The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner. This is also a collection of essays, by the National Book Award and Booker Prize finalist, spanning the years 2000 to 2020. Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey. Oprah Winfrey says that this is one of the most anticipated books of the year, and you should always listen to Oprah. International Thieves Are Stealing Legos, for Some Reason This could be the plot of Ocean’s 14 (it would be a Lego movie, of course). The Muppets, Ranked I don’t want to get ...