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Rachel Cusk is an author some British reviewers love to hate. Take her new book for example, one reviewer at the Times derided the author as “one of our truly world-class misérables”, trivialising and reviling what she calls “a plotless, introspective book about how hard it is to be Rachel…

Her groundbreaking book ‘Matrescence’, a study of the transition into motherhood, has won Lucy Jones plaudits and an army of dedicated readers. But she could never have written it all without Rachel Cusk’s unflinching 2001 parenting memoir, ‘A Life’s Work’ – a book that was met with frenzied outrage upon…

Spanning almost 40 years of a woman’s life, ‘Two Hours’ has all the highly aestheticised self-scrutiny of Rachel Cusk, only much more amusing

Navigating the extreme gap between a woman’s life and the one she imagined for herself, the writer’s third novel is concise, rigorous and heartbreaking

From the shock and awe of labour to domestic isolation, a wave of recent novels captures the transformative nature of being a mother

Spend your 2024 getting lost in very good novels – there are plenty to choose from. Jessie Thompson shares our guide to the year’s unmissable fiction

Critic Swallows Book collects 22 diverse essays from the Sydney Review of Books (SRB) to celebrate its ten-year anniversary. Established in 2013, the SRB is devoted to long form criticism and is an open access, online-only publication.

When my 25-year marriage broke down in 2017, I did what I always do in my life, especially in times of crisis. I turned to books. Specifically, to books by women.

A writer struggles after becoming a mother in this vibrant, genre-busting study of the divided self