Natalie Portman at the Center of Literary Furor as Rachel Cusk’s ‘Life of M’ Nears Release

How Natalie Portman Got Caught in Novelist Rachel Cusk’s Autofiction Trap

The buzzy novel ‘Life of M’ is a thinly veiled — and largely unflattering — portrait of the A-lister, by an acclaimed writer she has championed. The apparent betrayal has become the literary scandal of the year.