Kudos by Rachel Cusk review – exquisite control
With the final part in place, Cusk’s ‘Faye’ trilogy stands as a landmark of contemporary English literatureOutline, the first in what might be called Rachel Cusk’s “Faye” trilogy, was such a seamless...
View ArticleKudos by Rachel Cusk – a daringly truthful trilogy concludes
Faye, the artful listening presence in Outline and Transit, is back – but this time there’s a self-consciousness to the narrative voiceIn Outline, the novel she published in 2014, Rachel Cusk found...
View ArticleDrawn from life: why have novelists stopped making things up?
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Rachel Cusk, Sheila Heti, Edward St Aubyn – authors are using their own life stories in their fiction. Does the boom in autofiction spell the end of the novel, asks Alex...
View ArticleBest summer books 2018, as picked by writers – part one
Surrealist artists, dogged detectives, modern lovers and spies behaving badly ... leading authors pick their best books to enjoy these holidaysIf you only read one book this summer … make it this...
View ArticleBoiling point: why literature loves a long, hot summer
From The Go-Between to Atonement, The Great Gatsby to Call Me by Your Name, novelists have used heatwaves to create tension, erotic charge and moments of possibility – it is a time when ‘all the rules...
View Article'A different way of living': why writers are celebrating middle-age
Viv Albertine, Deborah Levy, Lavinia Greenlaw and Rachel Cusk are redefining life after menopause, children or divorce – and it has never looked so goodWhen Viv Albertine performs her 2009 song...
View ArticleHow to refocus the spotlight on female writers
Women too often have their lives rather than their books reviewed. Writers including Joyce Maynard and Olivia Sudjic consider how this can be resistedWhat does exposure mean for a female writer? It’s a...
View ArticleTop 10 books about the seasons
A writer who has swapped city life for sheep farming chooses reading attuned to the year’s cycles, from Rachel Cusk to Marcel ProustMy book On Sheep: Diary of a Swedish Shepherd is a memoir about my...
View Article‘If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor’: the complex world of Natalia...
Long famous in Italy, the writer is gaining readers in Britain with her vivid depictions of family life, the female experience, postwar hardship and hopeIn 1941 Cesare Pavese wrote a postcard to the...
View ArticleRachel Cusk archive snapped up by library – despite burnt and lost manuscripts
Harry Ransom Center in Texas, which buys papers of authors including Ian McEwan and Arthur Miller, has acquired Cusk’s notebooks, laptop and even drawings by her childrenThe papers of the Canadian-born...
View ArticleA day in the life: the best books set over 24-hours
With Dalloway Day falling on Wednesday, Alex Clark picks books with a time limit – from Ulysses to a novel set over a lunchbreak“Where can we live but days?” asked Philip Larkin. It’s a matter of...
View ArticleWhose Story is This?; Trick Mirror; Coventry – review
Essay collections from Rebecca Solnit, Jia Tolentino and Rachel Cusk chronicle the way we live nowIn recent years the essay has been revitalised as a form by a new generation of women whose writing...
View ArticleThe 100 best books of the 21st century
Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000Read an interview with the author of our No 1 bookRead Ali Smith...
View ArticleFrom Donna Tartt to Irvine Welsh: 10 great novels about friendship
Urban junkies, competitive mothers, adolescent girls caught in the world of Charles Manson ... Lara Feigel picks her 10 favourites Love beyond sex, money and property: a case for friendshipDonna Tartt,...
View ArticleTop 10 house parties in fiction | David Leavitt
From Evelyn Waugh to Virginia Woolf and Sally Rooney, these novels offer masterclasses in dialogue-driven narrativeFor better or worse, I am a literary Anglophile. My mother was too. As a child I...
View ArticleSecond Place by Rachel Cusk review – exquisitely cruel home truths
The deeply gendered experience of freedom is cunningly exposed in a shocking interrogation of art, privilege and propertyIf you wanted to locate a defining preoccupation in the consistently remarkable,...
View ArticleSecond Place by Rachel Cusk review – psychodrama in the shape of a social comedy
Cusk’s puzzling reworking of a 1932 memoir by an American bohemian suggests she’s in creative limboRachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy essentially took the form of a string of monologues heard by a...
View ArticleRachel Cusk’s singular novel stands out on wide-ranging Booker longlist
Second Place is both timeless and up-to-the minute, with big names Richard Powers and Kazuo Ishiguro among strong international finalistsNews: Booker reveals globe-spanning longlistThis is a longlist...
View ArticleAre slogan hats the new slogan T-shirts?
Baseball caps and bucket hats used to be about accessibility. But a new school of wearers are using them to express something about themselvesSpotting a man wearing a baseball cap that featured only...
View ArticleWhat we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in November
Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsIn this series we ask authors, Guardian writers and readers to share...
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