Blistering Reviews

That is a good one. I'd like to read the linked pieces by cusk though the brexit one is paywalled and may destroy my respect for her. I can't say I want to read the book in question even ignoring the weird if true gender politics, I didn't like her last one (the second place) all that much.

the NYT cusk review was pretty brutal. for the new book.

"The art talk that consumes this novel is leaden. It is the way you might begin to speak if you were raised solely in the Tate and the Whitney and had never eaten a hot dog. Watching trees fall makes one artist reconsider the “question of verticality.” Certain paintings are shocking because they do not traffic in the “moral barter of representation.” Homeless people are “reproaches to subjectivity.” One searches for signs that Cusk is writing satire, but there are none."

That so many people are homeless is certainly a reproach, but not to that