MixedAssociated PressThe mood here is never too serious ... The collection might be best for the Levy diehards who don’t want to miss any of her writing that happens between longer works ... It’s mainly the purpose of the book that feels askew or absent here.
Rachel Cusk
PositiveAssociated Press\"This is her distinct style — to relinquish the novel’s usual arc and instead try to pierce, through her characters, some deeper truths. For that reason, ,em>Parade will resonate with fans of Cusk’s novels Outline, Transit and Kudos, which made waves for the same quiet but unrelenting voice. But Parade is willing to go to darker places. The word \'violence\' reappears every few pages, applied not only to art and people but even the glinting face of a mountain that towers over the narrator’s seaside vacation. One of the book’s most engaging sections dissects a suicide that takes place at an art exhibit and raises the question of whether the art itself is implicated. Through her characters, Cusk shows us that art can be the site of violence, and also at times, the only medium through which to save oneself from it.\
