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Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her biographies of Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the realm of nonfiction - as is the title essay of this collection, with its forty-one "false starts," or serial attempts to capture the essence of t ...Show more
In The Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Who will inherit the secrets of Sigmund Freud? Who will protect his reputation? Who may destroy it? Janet Malcolm's investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud's legacy has become a celebrated story of seduction and betrayal, love and hatred, fantasy and reality. It is both a comedy and a ...Show more
In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Who will inherit the secrets of Sigmund Freud? Who will protect his reputation? Who may destroy it? Janet Malcolm's investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud's legacy has become a celebrated story of seduction and betrayal, love and hatred, fantasy and reality. It is both a comedy and a ...Show more
Iphegenia in Forest Hills: An Anatomy of a Murder by MALCOLM JANET
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"She couldn't have done it and she must have done it." This is the enigma at the heart of Janet Malcolm's riveting new book about a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention. The defendant, Mozoltuv Barukhova, a beautiful young physic ...Show more
Nobody's Looking at You - Essays by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: 4
Janet Malcolm's previous collection, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, was 'unmistakably the work of a master' (New York Times Book Review). Like Forty-One False Starts, Nobody's Looking at You brings together previously uncompiled pieces, mainly from The New Yorker and the New Yor ...Show more
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The process known as psychoanalysis is sometimes revered, sometimes derided, and most often misunderstood. What good does it do? Can it help anyone? What risks does it pose to both patient and analyst? None of these questions can be easily answered, but in Janet Malcolm's narrative, in which all her ski ...Show more
Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and framed by an account of a recent journey she made to St Petersburg. Malcolm demonstrates how the shadow of d ...Show more
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Biography & Memoir
The final work of one of the greatest non-fiction writers of the last century is a stunningly original memoir and a moving exploration of family history For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books poked and prodded at reportorial and biographica ...Show more
The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov; Constance Garnett (Translator); Janet Malcolm (Contribution by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Stories Volume 2
A married woman restlessly seeks a deeper love. An insomniac ponders the meagreness of his life. A man loses the respect of his family because of a counterfeit coin. A duel of wits escalates into a clash of cultures - and more. The Duel and Other Stories is the second in an exclusive three-volume editio ...Show more
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In equal measure famous and infamous, Janet Malcolm's book charts the true story of a lawsuit between Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, and Joe McGinniss, the author of a book about the crime. Lauded as one of the Modern Libraries "100 Best Works of Nonfiction", The Journalist and the Murderer is ...Show more
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
mself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible" So begins this book. It is followed by an attempt to demonstrate the accuracy of the remark through an examination of the lawsuit between Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, and Joe McGinness, the author of a book abo ...Show more
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible'In equal measure famous and infamous, Janet Malcolm's book charts the true story of a lawsuit between Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, and Joe McGinniss, the ...Show more