‘Outline,” the remarkably original novel by Rachel Cusk, tells the story of a writer, numbed by heartbreak, who rediscovers the meaning of art and love through her conversations with others. The book ...
Call it the semi-memoir, call it the autobiographical novel: an outpouring of deeply personal fiction from authors like Karl Ove Knausgaard, Sheila Heti, and Ben Lerner—with more on the horizon this ...
OUTLINE: A Novel. By Rachel Cusk. FSG. 249 pages. $26. In a poem from 1966, Robert Lowell wrote about “those blessed structures plot and rhyme.” The British writer Rachel Cusk is here to question ...