Monthly Archives: June 2026

I was surprised by how much I didn’t like Aftermath. It’s funny, I sort of enjoy Cusk’s unlikable protagonists when they’re fictional, but it turns out that her non-fiction voice is not so different and rather annoying (though I don’t remember this bothering me in her motherhood book, maybe because I found it more relatable?).ContinueContinue reading “Aftermath and No Fault”

Knisley’s account of going on a cruise with her fairly infirm grandparents — basically a diary of care-taking. It’s perhaps most interesting for what it does not say? There’s very little story, other than the reckoning of time (which is not that minute, either), plus interspersed entries from her grandfather’s wartime diary. Although Knisley describesContinueContinue reading “Displacement: a Travelogue, Lucy Knisley”