false 7446 3 3 147371 0679751408 9780679751403 22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172185968m/147371.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172185968s/147371.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147371.The_Silent_Woman_Sylvia_Plath_and_Ted_Hughes 3.82 159 7446 3.83 737 149 1993 55563 1862076375 9781862076372 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170450551m/55563.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170450551s/55563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55563.The_Journalist_and_the_Murderer 3.81 140 7446 3.83 737 149 1990 1017699 0300125518 9780300125511 57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180272094m/1017699.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180272094s/1017699.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1017699.Two_Lives_Gertrude_and_Alice 3.47 146 Two Lives is also a work of literary criticism. “Even the most hermetic of [Stein’s] writings are works of submerged autobiography,” Malcolm writes. “The key of  'I' will not unlock the door to their meaning—you need a crowbar for that—but will sometimes admit you to a kind of anteroom of suggestion.” Whether unpacking the accessible Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, in which Stein “solves the koan of autobiography,” or wrestling with The Making of Americans, a masterwork of “magisterial disorder,” Malcolm is stunningly perceptive.</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Praise for the author:</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">“[Janet Malcolm] is among the most intellectually provocative of authors . . .able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight.”—David Lehman, Boston Globe</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">“Not since Virginia Woolf has anyone thought so trenchantly about the strange art of biography.”—Christopher Benfey</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P></DIV> (20080229)]]> 7446 3.83 737 149 2007 378440 159017027X 9781590170274 14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174313011m/378440.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174313011s/378440.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378440.In_the_Freud_Archives 4.29 84 In the Freud Archives is Janet Malcolm’s celebrated account of the falling-out of two unlikely friends: K. R. Eissler, the formidable director of the secretive Freud Archives, and Jeffrey Moussaief Masson, a 42-year-old wunderkind trained in Sanskrit and psychoanalysis who was, briefly, Eissler’s designated successor. This deeply original work of nonfiction is written with the subtlety and insight of a Henry James novel. "From beginning to end it has the coolly accomplished excitement of a thriller." — The Sunday Times (London)]]> 7446 3.83 737 149 1983 306598 1568213425 9781568213422 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173586631m/306598.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173586631s/306598.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306598.Psychoanalysis_The_Impossible_Profession 4.41 44 7446 3.83 737 149 1981 1107183 0375506683 9780375506680 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181059319m/1107183.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181059319s/1107183.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1107183.Reading_Chekhov_A_Critical_Journey 3.89 19
One need not know Chekhov's writing to enjoy and be enlightened by Reading Chekhov (though anyone who does will find it doubly edifying). It is a work in which as we watch one outstanding mind try to understand another, we learn more about ourselves--our own ways of reading, thinking, and behaving: generally, what it means to be human.]]> 7446 3.83 737 149 2001 63136 0893817279 9780893817275 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170615130m/63136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170615130s/63136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63136.Diana_and_Nikon_Essays_on_Photography 4.07 14 Diana & Nikon, Janet Malcolm's first book, presents new essays that explore the last work of Diane Arbus, Sally Mann's family pictures, E.J. Bellocq's famous 1912 nudes, Andrew Bush's richly detailed interiors, and the relationship between painting and photography. The text of the original edition--long a much sought after rarity--is reprinted here in full, including essays on the works of the masters Stieglitz, Steichen, and Weston, as well as contemporaries such as Robert Frank, Irving Penn, and William Eggleston.

Malcolm offers a view of photography that is as complicated and as controversial as the medium itself. Her writings on such topics as Richard Avedon's portraits, Garry Winogrand's street photographs, and Harry Callahan's color work exhibit the elegant prose style and incisive commentary for which she is renowned. Illustrated with 100 black-and-white photographs, this is a book to read and to ponder, a sensitive and generous appraisal of where photography stands in relation to all the arts, and to its own past, by one of the leading writers of her generation.
]]> 7446 3.83 737 149 1980 63135 0679748105 9780679748106 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170615124m/63135.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170615124s/63135.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63135.The_Purloined_Clinic_Selected_Writings 4.15 13 7446 3.83 737 149 1992 306600 0375704590 9780375704598 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173586647m/306600.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173586647s/306600.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306600.The_Crime_of_Sheila_McGough 3.33 9 The New York Times Book Review

The Crime of Sheila McGough is Janet Malcolm's brilliant exposé of miscarriage of justice in the case of Sheila McGough, a disbarred lawyer recently released from prison. McGough had served 2 1/2 years for collaborating with a client in his fraud, but insisted that she didn't commit any of the 14 felonies she was convicted.

An astonishingly persuasive condemnation of the cupidity of American law and its preference for convincing narrative rather than the truth, this is also a story with an unconventional heroine. McGough is a zealous defense lawyer duped by a white-collar con man; a woman who lives, at the age of 54, with her parents; a journalistic subject who frustrates her interviewer with her maddening literal-mindedness. Spirited, illuminating, delightfully detailed, The Crime of Sheila McGough is both a dazzling work of journalism and a searching meditation on character and the law.



]]> 7446 3.83 737 149 1999 3821298 0300128614 9780300128611 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3821298.Burdock 4.00 1 Burdock is an homage to the botanical illustrators who recognized “the gorgeousness of the particulars of the things that are alive in the world.”</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>“Burdock consists of a series of large color photographs portraying a single, unusual kind of leaf in various stages of growth and decay. As such, it is a work of botanical and indeed philosophical interest as well as an art book. Like all of Malcolm’s work, this project entails looking with a steely but sympathetic and extremely intelligent eye at the world around her, zeroing in on the oddities that others might miss and using them as clues through which she solves the larger mystery.”—Wendy Lesser <P class=MsoNormalCxSpFirst>Malcolm’s leaves will be shown at the Lori Bookstein Fine Arts Gallery in New York, September 9–October 11, 2008.</P><P class=MsoNormalCxSpFirst>“Looking at natural forms close up is an exercise in awe.”—Janet Malcolm</P></DIV> (20080901)]]> 7446 3.83 737 149 2008