Rachel Cusk's New Novel, 'The Life of M,' Reviewed

Rachel Cusk’s Alleged Natalie Portman Novel Is Not Very Good

‘Life of M,’ a novel by Rachel Cusk, allegedly inspired by Natalie Portman, is half salacious, half tediously vague, writes Emma Alpern.

Rachel Cusk's new novel, 'The Life of M,' reviewed

Rachel Cusk's 'The Life of M' features a protagonist who rose to fame as a child star and made a movie about a tormented ballet dancer.

Life of M by Rachel Cusk

Clare Clark at The Guardian: In this post-saturation era of social media exposure, the intersection of appearance and authenticity has been exhaustively picked over. Cusk’s insights are not strikingly new. Her power lies in the authority of her sharp, spare prose, the glittering exactness of her sentences. She writes with crisp acuity about the frictionless (and therefore strangely lifeless) existence of the celebrity, the corrosive effect of fa…