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Patricia Lockwood · Why do I have to know what McDonald’s is? Rachel Cusk takes off

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Your 10-digit subscription number is above your name on the address slip and begins with 400. If you subscribed via the website, you can enter the order number from your subscription confirmation email in place of your subscription number. More search Options Browse by Subject T he observation​ that some people do not like Rachel Cusk is so omnipresent in criticism of her work that it’s surprising no one’s ever led off a review with ‘I, too, dislike her.’ These observations are generally accompanied by photos or illustrations of her in which she looks at you both directly and flinchingly, almost always with a strand of hair in the centre of her forehead, with a smile somewhat like Edna O’Brien’s – another writer who seemed to rouse hatred for her disarranged hair as much as for her books, another writer who went to convent school. This is the sort of education that can unfit you afterwards for normal conversation, that can make the suburbs seem beyond your power of underst

Vol. 40 No. 9 · 10 May 2018 Why do I have to know what McDonald’s is? Patricia Lockwood Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 3254 words Outline by Rachel Cusk . Faber, 249 pp., £8.99, May 2018, 978 0 571 34676 9 Show More Transit by Rachel Cusk . Faber, 260 pp., £8.99, May 2018, 978 0 571 34674 5 Show More Kudos by Rachel Cusk . Faber, 232 pp., £16.99, May 2018, 978 0 571 34664 6 Show More Show More T he observation ​ that some people do not like Rachel Cusk is so omnipresent in criticism of her work that it's surprising no one's ever led off a review wi

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