Janet Malcolm
American journalist and essayist who wrote some of the most morally complex and stylistically brilliant journalism in American history. The Journalist and the Murderer opened with the provocative claim that all journalists betray their subjects. Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession is a brilliant study of Freudian practice.
Works
- The Journalist and the MurdererNarrative nonfiction: ethical dilemmas in relationship between journalist and subject
- Psychoanalysis: The Impossible ProfessionEssay exploring impossibility and contradictions of psychoanalytic practice
- In the Freud ArchivesNarrative investigation of disputed Sigmund Freud archive and scholars
- The Silent WomanBiography: poet Sylvia Plath's life, death, and literary legacy disputes
- Nobody's Looking at You
- Reading ChekhovEssays on Russian writer Chekhov: characterization, structure, and craft