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Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm
Category: Non-Fiction
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
Category: Non-Fiction
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
Category: True Crime
"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
Category: Non-Fiction
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
Nobody's Looking at You: Essays by Malcolm Janet
Category: Non-Fiction
"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, TLSA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. One of BBC Culture, Lit Hub, O, the Oprah Magazine, and The New York Times's Books to Read this Februa ...Show more
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm
Category: Biography
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)
Category: Classics | 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
Category: Crime Fiction
'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
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
Category: Biography
In an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of In the Freud Archives and The Purloined Clinic offers an elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography. In The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath to c ...Show more
The Silent Woman - Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
Category: Biography | Series: Granta Editions
Janet Malcolm's revelatory biography of the tumultuous union of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and the critical battle that overshadows their legacies.
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov + Janet Malcolm (Contribution by)
Category: Classics
A young man tries to figure out the best way to live. A young woman struggles to assert herself within a regrettable marriage. A doctor attempts to befriend his most interesting patient. This riverrun edition presents a selection of Chekhov's longer stories - novellas, effectively - in Constance Garnett ...Show more
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