News Summary

• Rachel Cusk’s novel Life of M follows two women: the titular M, a famous actor, and an unnamed narrator.
• The book, dubbed by the Telegraph as a “ literary assassination,” begins: “A little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography.
• She liked the idea.
• Would you just make it up?
• she said.” So why do people think the protagonist M is really Oscar-winning A-lister Natalie Portman?