Superb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm's] long career." -Charles Finch, The New York Times Book ReviewFor decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books poked and prodded at reportorial and biographical convention, gesturing toward the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. In Still Pictures, she turns her gimlet eye on her own life-a task dem...
For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. Here, Malcolm turns her gimlet eye on her own life, examining twelve family photographs to construct a memoir from camera-caught moments, each of which pose questions of their own. She begins with the picture of a morose young girl on a train, leavi...
A poignant, revealing memoir by the legendary, award-winning New Yorker staff writer Janet Malcolm-featuring never-before-published material about her extraordinary life.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 biographical convention, gesturing toward the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. In Still Pictures, she turned her gi...
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. A 2019 NPR Staff Pick."Malcolm is always worth reading, it can be instructive to see how much satisfying craft she brings to even the most trivial article." --Phillip Lopate, TLSJanet Malcolm's previous collection, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, was "unmistakably the work of a master" (The New York Times Book Review). Like Forty-One False Starts, Nobody's Looking at You brin...
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. A 2019 NPR Staff Pick."Malcolm is always worth reading, it can be instructive to see how much satisfying craft she brings to even the most trivial article." --Phillip Lopate, TLSJanet Malcolm's previous collection, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, was "unmistakably the work of a master" (The New York Times Book Review). Like Forty-One False Starts, Nobody's Looking at You brin...
An examination into the psychopathology of journalism, this reissued title is both a fascinating and controversial classic of reportage. 'One of the best journalists writing in English anywhere' "Financial Times
From one of America's most controversial and respected journalists, comes a fascinating exploration of psychoanalysis, its patients, practitioners and critics.
Through an intensive study of _Aaron Green, _ a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm reveals the inner workings of psychoanalysis.
Malcolm brings together for the first time essays published over the course of several decades (many from "The New Yorker" and "The New York Review of Books") that reflect Malcolm's preoccupation with artists and their work.