On this episode of Start Making Sense, Harold Meyerson on the fight against ICE in Southern California, and Rachel Kushner on her latest novel. Jon Wiener Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation ...

American author Rachel Kushner’s new novel “Creation Lake” transports readers to Guyenne, a fictional region of southwest France. Fiction today, but Guyenne did exist. It had been the name of a rural ...

When novelist Rachel Kushner — her latest book, Creation Lake, is in paperback this week — cooks at home, her meals draw on whatever is fresh around her: sprigs of rosemary from the garden, ruby-red ...

Olivia Cooke is one of the brightest young stars in the business, lighting up the screen as the calculating Alicent Hightower ...

People who earned their bachelor’s degree from an Ivy tend to let you know, even decades after graduating. It’s in their author bio, or on their X handle. My degree from U.C. Berkeley never seemed ...

It’s December, and along with the holiday preparations and the shortened days, this time of year brings with it the barrage of year-end lists. Over the past weeks, critics and editors from numerous ...