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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, leaving Prague at the age of five in 1939. From there we follow her to the Czech enclave of Yorkville in Manhattan, where her father, a psychiatrist and neurologist, and her mother, an attorney from a bourgeois family, traded their bohemian, Dada-inflected lives for the ambitions of middle-class America. From her early, fitful loves to evenings at the old Metropolitan Opera House to her fascination with what it might mean to be a "bad girl," Malcolm assembles a composite portrait of a New York childhood, one that never escaped the tug of Europe and the mysteries of fate and family. Later, Malcolm delves into her marriage to Gardner Botsford, the world of William Shawn's New Yorker , and the libel trial that led her to become a character in her own drama.Displaying the sharp wit and astute commentary that are Malcolmian trademarks, this brief volume develops into a memoir like no other.

A provocative collection of interviews with the sublimely talented author of The Journalist and the MurdererThe legendary journalist, Janet Malcolm, opened her most famous work The Journalist and the Murderer with the “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.”Ever since its publication in 1980, she only increased her reputation as a devastatingly sharp writer, whose eye for observation is matched only by her formal inventiveness and philosophical interrogations of the relationship between journalist and subject.Predictably, as an interview subject herself, she was an intimidating mark. In this collection, interviewers tangle with their own projections and identifications, while she often, gamely, plays along. Full of insights about her writing process, the craft of journalism, and her own analysis of her most famous works, this collection proves that Janet Malcolm is just as elusive and enlightening in conversation as she was on paper.

Janet Malcolm’s previous collection, "Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers," was recognized for its mastery. "Nobody’s Looking at You" brings together previously uncompiled pieces, mainly from "The New Yorker" and "The New York Review of Books." The title piece is a profile of fashion designer Eileen Fisher, whose mother often said, “Nobody’s looking at you.” In this volume, Malcolm examines a broad range of subjects, from Donald Trump’s TV nemesis Rachel Maddow to pianist Yuju Wang, and the Supreme Court confirmation hearings. In an essay called “Socks,” the Pevears are described as an “asteroid” that has impacted Russian Literature in English translation, while “Dreams and Anna Karenina” focuses on Tolstoy, “one of literature’s greatest masters of manipulative techniques.” The collection concludes with “Pandora’s Click,” a cautionary piece about e-mail etiquette written in the early 2000s, which still resonates today.

A fascinating exploration of psychoanlysis, its patients, practitioners and critics, from one of America's most respected and most controversial journalists.

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.

'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' The author asks at the beginning of this work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master and Alice B Toklas, the 'worker bee' who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate 'marriage'.

'Reading Chekhov is a literary pilgrimage, homage, travelogue, biography, literary criticism and a restrained love letter all rolled into one ... It is the work of an iridescent and sympathetic imagination' The Times

A collection of essays and profiles which examine art and literature from a psychoanalytical point of view. It includes an observation of the work of an iconoclastic family therapist, follows a former Czech dissident through post-Velvet Revolution Prague, and looks at the New York art world.

Re-issue of Malcolm's revelatory biography of the tumultous union of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and the critical battle that dogs their legacies.

Janet Malcolm examines the psychopathology of journalism using the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision, a book about the crime. McGinnis lived with MacDonald's defense team during the trial, concealing his opinion of MacDonald's guilt until publication. McGinniss additionally diagnosed MacDonald in the book as a "pathological narcissist" based upon his own amateur research. Malcolm argues that McGinniss's actions were both immoral and professionally indefensible. Hugely controversial upon initial publication, her thesis on the ethical dilemma behind every journalistic profile has become widely accepted today. Malcolm produced a work of journalism as well as an essay on journalism. She interviews the leading and subsidiary characters in the MacDonald-McGinniss case -- the principals, their lawyers, the members of the jury, and the various persons who testified as expert witnesses at the trial. Hovering over the narrative is the MacDonald murder case itself, in which MacDonald's pregnant wife and two daughters were slain

"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-Freudian; and Peter Swales, a mischievous thirty-five-year-old former assistant to the Rolling Stones and self-taught Freud scholar. At the center of their Oedipal drama are the Sigmund Freud Archives - founded, headed, and jealously guarded by Eissler - whose sealed treasure gleams and beckons to the community of Freud scholarship as if it were the Rhine gold."--Jacket

Die Autorin bietet einen intensiven Blick auf die Praxis der Psychoanalyse durch Interviews mit „Aaron Green“, einem freudianischen Analysten in New York City. Malcolm beschreibt die Geschichte der Psychoanalyse und ihre Entwicklung in den Vereinigten Staaten auf zugängliche und klare Weise. Das Buch gewährt seltene Einblicke in die widersprüchliche Welt der psychoanalytischen Ausbildung und Behandlung und bildet eine Grundlage für unser Verständnis von Psychiatrie und psychischer Gesundheit.