# Parade by Rachel Cusk Review – A Brilliant and Unsettling Feat  ## Metadata - Author: [[Kate Kellaway]] - Full Title: Parade by Rachel Cusk Review – A Brilliant and Unsettling Feat - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: With this freewheeling examination of creation, gender and art, the bold and original Cusk is ever more determined to write about life precisely as she finds itOne of the women in Rachel Cusk’s new novel confesses to an ability to shock that is “instinctive and unconscious”. This could double as a description of Cusk herself. To be controversial is second nature to her (think of the articulate effrontery of A Life’s Work, her book about motherhood, or The Last Supper, her fascinating memoir about living in Italy, which was nonetheless pulped after someone described in it sued, or Aftermath, about the breakdown of her marriage, which led to a critical mauling in the press). And yet she continues to refuse to pull even a wisp of wool over her own – or anyone else’s – eyes. Self-consciously original, inward and undeterred, she has become ever more persistently determined to write about life precisely as she finds it, and in Parade pulls off a brilliant, stark and unsettling feat.It was with Outline (2014) that Cusk... - URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/26/parade-by-rachel-cusk-review-a-brilliant-and-unsettling-feat - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > “Often we received the confusing impression that love disliked freedom and at the same time sought to impersonate it.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hyswfcvqc6xkpx7dj2hvt8s7))