Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist and male artist are not distinct terms. As Cusk writes in the profile, which finally situated Paul, at 60, as more than ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rachel Cusk’s Parade appears in its early pages to uphold a grand tradition: the novel about an artist. G is a painter, much ...

SECOND PLACE. By Rachel Cusk. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 180 pages. $25. In “Coventry,” a 2016 essay, Rachel Cusk makes an off-hand comment that could be the tagline for “Second Place,” her first ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1922, the now-legendary arts patron Mabel Dodge Luhan invited the British writer D.H. Lawrence to her home in Taos, New Mexico. A decade later, she published a memoir about the visit called ...

In Rachel Cusk’s novels and nonfiction, it’s not unusual for a character to be in the process of renovating a house. In a 2016 essay, “Making House: Notes on Domesticity,” Cusk describes remodeling ...

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 ...