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 ...

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 ...

Rachel Cusk’s new novel, “Parade,” is an experiment that foregrounds theme, striking its notes — on gender, artmaking, motherhood, freedom, death — with force. Like a musical composition with a ...

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 ...

With her new novel “Parade,” the writer Rachel Cusk returns with a searching look at the pain artists can capture — and inflict. Never centered on a single person or place, the book ushers in a series ...

In her latest work, Cusk probes questions about the connections between freedom, gender, domesticity, art, and suffering. In her latest novel, Parade, Rachel Cusk once again flouts traditional ...

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 ...

I remember the exact moment I read a passage about sleep in A Life’s Work, Rachel Cusk’s beloved and divisive motherhood memoir. I was lying in bed on my side. The baby wasn’t sleeping very much and ...

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 ...

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 ...