RaveJacobinWhat concerns Cusk isn’t necessarily new, and her musings on gender sit on the unfashionable side of identity discourse. But Cusk’s forensic attention elevates the genteel middle-class squabbles that have become an obsession for her into something timeless ... Cusk has shown that she has been able to tie together the loose ends of her earlier work, transmuting the brutal self-examination that she perfected in her memoirs into fiction.
