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 ...

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 ...

If by their punctuation ye shall know them, then the key to Rachel Cusk is the colon. Most writers tend to use it sparingly, for emphasis or introduction, but Cusk is happy, in her new collection of ...

This cover image released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux shows "Second Place," a novel by Rachel Cusk. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux via AP) “Second Place,” by Rachel Cusk (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) In ...

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 "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 ...

Using a chipper register swarmed by exclamation marks, in Second Place Cusk establishes a narrator much like herself: a woman author who lives in a corner of England so gorgeous that it moves her to ...

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 ...

A writer offers up her guest house to a famous painter in hope that something transcendent will happen. But he's selfish, amoral and flagrantly misogynistic — and monstrously at ease with all this.

If listening is an art, then the narrator of Rachel Cusk’s new novel, “Transit,” is a virtuoso. Faye, a writer, has recently returned to London with her two sons following a divorce. As she goes about ...