New Statesman - <![CDATA[Rachel Cusk]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/rachel_cusk en <![CDATA[Silly old mum]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200509260044 http://www.newstatesman.com/200509260044 Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:00:00 GMT Rachel Cusk Confessions of a Bad Mother Stephanie Calman Macmillan, 307pp, £12.99 ISBN 1405051922

]]> <![CDATA[Fiction special - Private lives. Alice Munro's detailed portraits of female constraint make her a truly great short-story writer, finds Rachel Cusk]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200501240042 http://www.newstatesman.com/200501240042 Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:00:00 GMT Rachel Cusk Runaway Alice Munro Chatto & Windus, 352pp, £15.99 ISBN 0701177500

]]> <![CDATA[Walk on the wild side. What is the point of children's literature? To introduce the young to concepts such as fear and unpredictability, or to damp them down at the day's end with wads of reassurance? Rachel Cusk regrets the excision of terror and violence from fairy tales]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200412130048 http://www.newstatesman.com/200412130048 Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:00:00 GMT Rachel Cusk Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen; translated by Tiina Nunnally Penguin Classics, 437pp, £20 ISBN 0713996412 The Annotated Brothers Grimm Edited by Maria Tatar; with an introduction by A S Byatt W W Norton, 462pp, £17.95

]]> <![CDATA[Mum's the word. The world has many mothers but little sense of what it might be to become one, thanks to a dearth of serious writing on the subject. Rachel Cusk on a sphere of female silence and servitude]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200408230032 http://www.newstatesman.com/200408230032 Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:00:00 GMT Rachel Cusk Making Babies: stumbling into motherhood Anne Enright Jonathan Cape, 196pp, £10.99 ISBN 022406293X

]]> <![CDATA[Fiction - Baby blues. Wake up, ladies - it's time to confound the cruel and careless cliches of the married woman and motherhood. By Rachel Cusk]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200402160047 http://www.newstatesman.com/200402160047 Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:00:00 GMT Rachel Cusk The White Stuff Simon Armitage Viking, 281pp, £12.99 ISBN 067091343X

]]> <![CDATA[Misconceptions. Rachel Cusk discovers a great deal of sex but no real love in Jim Crace's novel about a man who gets every woman he sleeps with pregnant]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200309080040 http://www.newstatesman.com/200309080040 Mon, 08 Sep 2003 12:00:00 GMT Rachel Cusk Six Jim Crace Viking, 256pp, £16.99 ISBN 0670881163

]]> <![CDATA[Desolate]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200307070030 http://www.newstatesman.com/200307070030 Mon, 07 Jul 2003 12:00:00 GMT Rachel Cusk A short story, written for the New Statesman by Rachel Cusk

]]> <![CDATA[Modern Madonnas]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200302170033 http://www.newstatesman.com/200302170033 Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:00:00 GMT Rachel Cusk The tits and bums of soap stars and page-three girls are familiar sights, but the pregnant woman remains a mystery. Rachel Cusk welcomes an artistic rethink of a taboo

]]> <![CDATA[My heart is broken]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200204290037 http://www.newstatesman.com/200204290037 Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:00:00 GMT Rachel Cusk Unless Carol Shields Fourth Estate, 213pp, £16.99 ISBN 0007137702

]]> <![CDATA[The colour of hope]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200105070045 http://www.newstatesman.com/200105070045 Mon, 07 May 2001 12:00:00 GMT Rachel Cusk Moralities: sex, money and power in the 21st century Joan Smith Allen Lane, 202pp, £14.99 ISBN 0713994096

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