The incident only opened Rachel’s eyes to ... 2001), then of divorce (Aftermath, 2012). That changed with her eighth book, Outline (2014), in which a Cusk-like author, seen only in silhouette ...

Rachel Cusk’s new novel ... who may recall her assertion, in her memoir “Aftermath,” that she and her ex-husband each became “half-man” and “half-woman.” But the idea doesn ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rachel Cusk is no stranger to provocation. “I annoy everybody,” she once said in an interview.

In Outline, the first book in Rachel Cusk’s astonishing trilogy of novels ... One senses that Cusk is berating herself. In one essay in Aftermath, she recounts how her ex-husband — like ...

Is Rachel Cusk’s new book a novel ... Something similar happened to Cusk herself, as she recounts in her divorce memoir, Aftermath (2012). Yet the story of G in ‘The Midwife’ is a counterpoint to the ...

I have never quite broken through this difficulty with Rachel Cusk. The 57-year-old British novelist is the author of 17 books, including two bracing memoirs, of motherhood (A Life’s Work, 2001) and ...

Start, as one tends to do in Rachel Cusk’s writing, with a house. It is not yours, but instead a farmhouse on the island property to which you have come as a renting vacationer. It has no ...

In her latest novel, Parade, Rachel Cusk once again flouts traditional narrative to probe questions about the connections between freedom, gender, domesticity, art, and suffering in a series of ...