Rachel Cusk

1 month ago | aliciakennedy.news | Ashanté Reese |Rachel Cusk |Alicia Kennedy

I clicked my AirPod to pause an audiobook of Elite Capture by Olúfémi O. Táíwò so that I could hear the man in front of me on line for coffee speak. He was talking to me about my dog, Benny. “He’s well trained,” he said, as Benny allowed a woman with purple hair and purple clothes to pet him. One of those purple people, I had thought. I replied to the man with a smile, “Not really.

Dec 22, 2024 | orangeville.com | Rachel Cusk |Michel Houellebecq |Rachel Kushner |Anne Carson

Paradeby Rachel Cusk Harper Perennial, $29.99Reading “Parade” is like driving quickly in a tiny car up the side of a steep mountain. Cusk, the author of the Outline trilogy, switchbacks bracingly between multiple narratives — all about different artists named G — as she races past comforting fictions about motherhood and art on her way to something more true. Sentence by sentence, Cusk’s command is stunning.

Oct 22, 2024 | bookforum.com | Rachel Cusk

MARRIAGE IS A GRIM BUSINESS—worse still if you’re a woman in a Rachel Cusk book. The blame lies with Christian iconography, she writes in her 2012 memoir, Aftermath, and pictures of the “holy family, that pious unit that sucked the world’s attention dry.” There, we found Mary and the manger, the Christ child, cuckolded Joseph: images gathered in a “cult of sentimentality and surfaces” to obscure the innate beastliness of human existence and so tidy death.

Oct 17, 2024 | nybooks.com | Ana Raquel Minian |Rachel Cusk |Sunil S. Amrith |Christopher Brown

The Crime of Human Movement Two recent books about our immigration system reveal its long history of exploiting vulnerable individuals for financial gain.

Sep 27, 2024 | redhot.sg | Rachel Cusk |Rachel CuskFiction

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