Janet Malcolm

Forty-one False Starts

by Janet Malcolm & Ian Frazier

A 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,...

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

by Janet Malcolm

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...

The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings

by Janet Malcolm

The Purloined Clinic is a retrospective of essays, reviews, and reports that reflect the range and depth of Janet Malcolm's engagement with psychology, criticism, art, and literature.

She examines aspects of...

The Crime of Sheila McGough

by Janet Malcolm

"[N]o other writer tells better stories about the perpetual, the unwinnable, battle between narrative and truth." --The New York Times Book Review

The Crime of Sheila McGough is Janet Malcolm's brilliant exposé...

Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey

by Janet Malcolm

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...

The Journalist and the Murderer

by Janet Malcolm

In two previous books, Janet Malcolm explored the hidden sides of, respectively, institutional psychoanalysis and Freudian biography. In this book, she examines the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange...

Psychoanalysis

by Janet Malcolm

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.

From the Trade Paperback edition.