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Rachel Cusk
Can creative writing ever be taught?Any writer who teaches in a university creative writing department will have been asked (many times) the apparently well-meaning question: "Is it really possible to...
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Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Millions of women have fallen for Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir of self-discovery. Why, asks Rachel Cusk, as Eat, Pray, Love opens as a Julia Roberts blockbusterThere's a running gag in Elizabeth...
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Feminism in the 21st century | Zoe Williams
Caitlin Moran writes about her body, Rachel Cusk dissects the aftermath of her divorce and Sylvia Walby addresses 'raunch culture'. What do their books reveal about feminism today?What is feminism?...
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Rachel Cusk | Portraits
A famous singer arrives at the studio of Lovis Corinth to sit for a portrait in this specially commissioned storyRain on Klopstockstrasse. Light held in misty nets of water above the grey gleaming...
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Literary events in 2012
More Dickens and even more Shakespeare, but also new novels from Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, plus exciting new voices – 2012's literary highlightsJanuary10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery...
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Rachel Cusk: my broken marriage
When Rachel Cusk's happy relationship of 10 years turned into a bitter break-up, she wondered how she and her two daughters would copeRecently my husband and I separated, and over the course of a few...
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Rachel Cusk: 'Divorce is only darkness'
Rachel Cusk's new memoir describes with brutal honesty the breakdown of her marriage. Why has she laid bare her family trauma, has she invaded her children's privacy and does she regret it?Few figures...
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The conversation: Is it ever OK for a writer to confess all in public?
With Rachel Cusk's new book on the end of her marriage causing controversy, writers Tim Lott and Christa D'Souza discuss what drives their impulse to confess, and the responsibilities that come with...
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Has confessional journalism gone too far?
Rachel Cusk published a memoir of the failure of her marriage, to a wave of controversy last week. Yvonne Roberts and Lucy Cavendish – who has often written about her family life – debate whether the...
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Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk – review
Rachel Cusk's memoir of the breakdown of her marriage is a chilly masterclass in emotional dissectionRachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to...
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Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk – review
Infuriating and narcissistic? Yes, but also brave and brilliantWhen a marriage fails, the protagonists usually look for an explanation that will shelter them in their respective differences....
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Unthinkable? The unwritable
Harsher critics have accused Rachel Cusk of a confessional narcissism that unfairly exposes the private agony of her familyAll great art, argues Nietzsche, is a combination of Dionysus and Apollo....
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Critical eye: book reviews roundup
Aftermath by Rachel Cusk, Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd and London in the Eighteenth Century by Jerry White"As every reader not living under a rock now knows, the novelist Rachel Cusk has written...
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Diary of a separation
Is this column a betrayal of my family?I have, finally, weeks after the rest of the world, read Rachel Cusk's Aftermath, the ultra-candid memoir of the early days of her separation from her husband of...
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Doris Lessing's Golden Notebook, 50 years on
Lessing's radical exploration of communism, female liberation, motherhood and mental breakdown was hailed as the 'feminist bible' and reviled as 'castrating'. Four generations of writers reflect on...
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Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites
From a meditation on walking Britain's ancient paths to an epic American novel, from reportage on life in a Mumbai slum to a blockbuster biography of LBJ ... writers choose their books of the...
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Rachel Cusk: in praise of the creative writing course
Can people really be taught how to write novels? Doubts have plagued the inexorable rise of creative writing workshops. But the cynicism is beginning to look outdatedIn F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The...
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Sharon Olds's silence is golden in an era of endless media exposure |...
If only more writers were like the poet Sharon Olds and realised that discretion is better than endless revelationThe poems in Stag's Leap, the collection that has just won Sharon Olds the TS Eliot...
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Hatchet Job of the Year goes to assault on Rachel Cusk
Camilla Long's scathing review of Cusk's memoir Aftermath draws most blood in contest for the best bad reviewCamilla Long's comprehensive shredding of Rachel Cusk's memoir of her divorce, Aftermath,...
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Leading writers publish bad reviews of themselves
Anne Enright, Richard Ford and Rachel Cusk among authors confessing worst literary sins to Dublin ReviewSelf-flagellation by authors is a long and distinguished tradition, with Tolstoy (who dismissed...
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