Hari Kunzru
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Escape Into the Present: On Hari Kunzru December 20, 2024
With the publication of Blue Ruin, Hari Kunzru has rounded off a loose trilogy about the cultural and political constitution of our present, stretching from 2017’s White Tears and continuing in 2020’s Red Pill. All are Künstlerromane—novels of the ar...
Dreams of Creation August 07, 2024
Occupational hazards abound for Jay, the narrator of Hari Kunzru’s latest novel, Blue Ruin. We meet him in 2020, in the early days of Covid, as he delivers groceries in upstate New York. He has already contracted the virus and is suffering from its a...
Hari Kunzru’s Escape From the Art Market July 04, 2024
In Honoré de Balzac’s 1831 story “The Unknown Masterpiece,” the young artist Nicolas Poussin presents himself at the studio of Porbus, a seventeenth-century court painter, hoping to inhale the fumes of creative genius. It is a stroke of luck that his...
Hari Kunzru’s ‘Blue Ruin’ Looks Back in Anger July 02, 2024
During the turbulence of the COVID-19 pandemic and its cycles of isolating lockdowns, many artists and writers had to draw creative inspiration from their own memories. Hari Kunzru’s seventh novel, Blue Ruin (2024) – the third in a tricolore after Wh...
