Quiet echoes from Rachel Cusk’s most striking books shape this ranking, capturing the emotional sharpness and lingering resonance that make her writing unforgettable., Books, Times Now ...

Here is the final book in Rachel Cusk’s trilogy of small, serious, flexible and emphatic novels that began with “Outline” in 2015 and continued last year with “Transit.” What to call them? From Willa ...

With her new novel “Parade,” the writer Rachel Cusk returns with a searching look at the pain artists can capture — and inflict. Never centered on a single person or place, the book ushers in a series ...

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 ...

I remember the exact moment I read a passage about sleep in A Life’s Work, Rachel Cusk’s beloved and divisive motherhood memoir. I was lying in bed on my side. The baby wasn’t sleeping very much and ...

Early in her novel “Parade,” Rachel Cusk writes of an artist who has “finally been able to unchain himself from the predestination of identity and be free.” The description can be read as a mission ...

PARADE. By Rachel Cusk. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 208 pages. $27. Rachel Cusk’s latest novel “Parade” is, like most of her novels, a slender, elegantly constructed work that bulges with ideas. The ...

The cover of Second Place (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2021), by Rachel Cusk (image courtesy the publisher) Bafflement, alongside art, is Second Place’s central theme. Cusk’s narrator, a middle-aged, ...

The author discusses her story “Something Has Come to Light.” Everyone was looking at us as though they all knew that Ritu had done the work and I had tried to mooch off her. The New Yorker’s poetry ...

With her new novel "Parade," the writer Rachel Cusk returns with a searching look at the pain artists can capture -- and inflict. Never centered on a single person or place, the book ushers in a ...