Rachel Cusk’s Parade appears in its early pages to uphold a grand tradition: the novel about an artist. G is a painter, much admired but “angry and hurt by the world.” G, notable for rendering images ...

Cusk is making a point about the difficulty of keeping multiple factors in mind: Just as obsessing about her lines made her forget her presence on stage, fixating on cost could mean that a builder ...

Several years ago, I attended a reading by Rachel Cusk from “Kudos,” the final installment of her “Outline” trilogy. She read from near the end of the novel, when the character Paola explains why she ...

Rachel Cusk is not a radical–at least not anymore. Critics lambasted her as a “bad mom” when she asserted that marriage and motherhood deprive women of any sense of self in her memoirs A Life’s Work ...

Hatred of Cusk really peaked in 2012 with Aftermath: On Marriage And Separation—an elliptical, messy, often frustratingly over-intellectualized memoir about her split from her husband. “It’s not a ...

In "Transit," a new novel by Rachel Cusk, a woman and her two sons prepare to begin a new life. The second book in a planned trilogy, her novel is gaining acclaim for the writing and form. Cusk joins ...

Call it the semi-memoir, call it the autobiographical novel: an outpouring of deeply personal fiction from authors like Karl Ove Knausgaard, Sheila Heti, and Ben Lerner—with more on the horizon this ...

In her 2012 memoir Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, Rachel Cusk pinpointed a dilemma familiar to all warring couples. Her idea about why the marriage failed didn’t match her husband’s. “My ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. You know when you’re reading a page of Rachel Cusk’s fiction. Her narrators tug insistently if ...

Cusk loves to make metaphors out of a space’s vastness, where a landscape illuminates the drama of the narrator’s life: an unending sky that makes miniatures of airplanes, an ocean that drops its ...