Early in her novel “Parade,” Rachel Cusk writes of an artist who has “finally been able to unchain himself from the predestination of identity and be free.” The description can be read as a mission ...

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 ...

Rachel Cusk’s new memoir, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, confronts me with the invisible work I do to shield myself from a shibboleth of my married-with-children existence. Neither I nor my ...

Here is the final book in Rachel Cusk’s trilogy of small, serious, flexible and emphatic novels that began with “Outline” in 2015 and continued last year with “Transit.” What to call them? From Willa ...

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 ...

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 ...