Rachel Cusk
Articles by Rachel Cusk
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Books
Silly old mum
- 26 September 2005
Confessions of a Bad Mother Stephanie Calman Macmillan, 307pp, £12.99 ISBN 1405051922
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Fiction special - Private lives. Alice Munro's detailed portraits of female constraint make her a truly great short-story writer, finds Rachel Cusk
- 24 January 2005
Runaway Alice Munro Chatto & Windus, 352pp, £15.99 ISBN 0701177500
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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
- 13 December 2004
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
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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
- 23 August 2004
Making Babies: stumbling into motherhood Anne Enright Jonathan Cape, 196pp, £10.99 ISBN 022406293X
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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
- 16 February 2004
The White Stuff Simon Armitage Viking, 281pp, £12.99 ISBN 067091343X
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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
- 08 September 2003
Six Jim Crace Viking, 256pp, £16.99 ISBN 0670881163
Culture
Modern Madonnas
- 17 February 2003
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
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My heart is broken
- 29 April 2002
Unless Carol Shields Fourth Estate, 213pp, £16.99 ISBN 0007137702
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The colour of hope
- 07 May 2001
Moralities: sex, money and power in the 21st century Joan Smith Allen Lane, 202pp, £14.99 ISBN 0713994096
