 In "The New York Times" review of "Transit", Dwight Garner said the novel offers "transcendental reflections", and that he was waiting more eagerly for "Kudos", the last novel of Rachel Cusk's trilogy, than for that of Karl Ove Knausgaard's "My Struggle" series.Reviews of "Kudos," the last novel of Cusk's trilogy, were largely positive.Writing for "The New Yorker", Katy Waldman called it "a book "about" failure that is not, in itself, a failure.