Outline of Art* MEN OF ART—Thomas Craven—Simon & Schuster ($3).†¶ "We can easily imagine what the old Florentines, renowned and feared for their sharp tongues and fierce wits, might have ...

Like the non-fiction that came before it Outline is a book about what it means to be a woman, but in it Cusk has transformed sentiment that was derided as gushing self-obsession and self-pity into ...