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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 list is an encouraging snapshot of an industry on the rebound. And maybe, just maybe, we can look fo...

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, “The Mayor of Leipzig,” the narrator, an American artist, reveals: “I personally know the aut...

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 speak to each other. There is tonal fluidity between literary journalism, memoir, cultural and soci...

‘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. She published her first novel, Telex from Cuba, in 2008, followed in 2013 by The Flamethrowers; her ...

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 twine holding together the sturdy leatherbound edifice. And so, writing about being cool is often the r...