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Spiral Jetty, 2018. (Photo by Adam Gray / Barcroft Media via Getty Images) One of the more tragic errors of our time is our ready conflation of what is iconic with what is well branded. In an effort at bypassing the difficult work of becoming someone, many of today’s would-be writers, artists, and thinkers opt to present themselves as walking pitch decks, glomming onto a marketable persona and riding it as hard and far as they can. Our moment’s lack of nuance is frequently bemoaned, but what strikes me as the far greater omission is the lack of real mess and breadth: the modern individua...

At first glance, it is difficult to detect a strong thread linking the essays in Rachel Kushner’s new book, The Hard Crowd.

‘The Hard Crowd’ Reveals Rachel Kushner's Literary Life Through Death Her latest book, a collection of 19 essays that spans art criticism, journalism and memoir, is an exhaustive examination of what it means to write ‘Neither tragic nor legendary, I myself will never die,’ writes Rachel Kushner in ‘Made to Burn’. She means that no one will write about her death. Her subjects, though – the rough-housers, activists, nihilists and stoics that people her first nonfiction collection, The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000– 2020 (Simon & Schuster, 2021) – are another stor...