Janet L Malcolm

Walker Evans

… Noting a similarity to the Beals' book, the critic Janet Malcolm, in her 1980 book Diana & Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography, has pointed out the contradiction between a kind of anguished dissonance in Agee's prose and the quiet, magisterial beauty of Evans's photographs of shar...

Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm (born 1934) is an American writer, journalist on staff at The New Yorker magazine, and collagist. She is the author of Psychoanalysis: The...

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

The Crime of Sheila McGough

Reading Chekhov : A Critical Journey

The Crime of Sheila McGough

Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey

Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession

In the Freud Archives

The Journalist and the Murderer

Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography

This expanded edition of Diana & Nikon, Janet Malcolm's first book, presents new essays that explore the last work of Diane Arbus, Sally Mann's family pictures, E.J. Bellocq's famous 1912 nudes, Andrew Bush's richly detailed interiors, and the relationship between painting and photography. The text ...

Burdock

Over the course of three summers in New England, Malcolm gathered leaves of the burdock plant, a “large rank weed” with medicinal properties “that grows along roadsides and in waste places and around derelict buildings.” Influenced by Richard Avedon’s unsparing portraits of famous people, Malcolm is...

Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for CriticismA deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics.Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her books about Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the realm of nonfic...

The Crime of Sheila McGough

"[N]o other writer tells better stories about the perpetual, the unwinnable, battle between narrative and truth." --The New York Times Book ReviewThe Crime of Sheila McGough is Janet Malcolm's brilliant exposé of miscarriage of justice in the case of Sheila McGough, a disbarred lawyer recently relea...

Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey

To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov’s writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from Chekhov’s life and framed by an account of Malcolm’s journey to St. Peter...

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

From the moment it was first published in The New Yorker, this brilliant work of literary criticism aroused great attention. Janet Malcolm brings her shrewd intelligence to bear on the legend of Sylvia Plath and the wildly productive industry of Plath biographies. Features a new Afterword by Malcolm.

Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial

This title is ultimately about character, gamesmanship, and 'reasonable doubt'. It tells the story of Mozoltuv Barukhova, a beautiful young physician, who is accused of hiring an assassin to kill her estranged husband, Daniel Malakov, a respected orthodontist, in the presence of their four-year-old ...

In the Freud Archives (New York Review Books Classics)

Includes an afterword by the author In the Freud Archives tells the story of an unlikely encounter among three men: K. R. Eissler, the venerable doyen of psychoanalysis; Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a flamboyant, restless forty-two-year-old Sanskrit scholar turned psychoanalyst turned virulent anti-Fr...