{"title":"Janet Malcolm","description":"\u003cp\u003eJanet Malcolm’s work deftly explores the complexities of truth and narrative within the realms of \u003cem\u003ephilosophy, psychology,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ememoir\u003c\/em\u003e. Her incisive examinations, as seen in titles like \u003cem\u003eThe Journalist and the Murderer\u003c\/em\u003e, challenge readers to reconsider the ethics of storytelling and the often uneasy relationship between subject and writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlending meticulous reportage with profound psychological insight, Malcolm’s writing frequently interrogates human behaviour under pressure, whether in crime, personal identity, or psychoanalytic theory. Her distinct voice offers a compelling perspective on the intersections of fact, fiction, and the lives we lead.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"still-pictures-by-janet-malcolm-9781922458735","title":"Still Pictures","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e poked and prodded at reportorial and biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. In \u003cem\u003eStill Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e, she turns her gimlet eye on her own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with the image of a morose young girl on her way from Prague to New York in 1939, to fitful early loves and 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 escapes the tug of Europe and the mysteries of fate and family. Later, she delves into the world of William Shawn's \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e and the infamous libel trial that saw her become a character in her own drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten with Malcolm's peerless skill and sharp wit, this memoir from a titan of American letters is unlike any other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46379427168492,"sku":"9781922458735","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12998473482872.jpg?v=1744838096"},{"product_id":"psychoanalysis-by-janet-malcolm-9781783784530","title":"Psychoanalysis","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe process known as psychoanalysis is sometimes revered, sometimes derided, and most often misunderstood. What good does it do? Can it help anyone? 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None of these questions can be easily answered, but in Janet Malcolm's narrative, in which all her skills as a reporter and interviewer come into play, their complexity is limpidly revealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePsychoanalysis\u003c\/em\u003e, Janet Malcolm explores these intricate questions, shedding light on the misunderstood process through her expert storytelling and insightful interviews.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46521623675116,"sku":"9781783784530","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2460133482823.jpg?v=1749018387"},{"product_id":"the-silent-woman-by-janet-malcolm-9781783786237","title":"The Silent Woman","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIs it ever possible to know 'the truth' about Sylvia Plath and her marriage to Ted Hughes, which ended with her suicide? 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The defendant, Mazoltuv Borukhova, a beautiful young physician, is accused of hiring an assassin to kill her estranged husband, Daniel Malakov, a respected orthodontist, in the presence of their four-year-old child. The prosecutor calls it an act of vengeance: just weeks before Malakov was killed in cold blood, he was given custody of Michelle for inexplicable reasons. It is the \"Dickensian ordeal\" of Borukhova's innocent child that drives Malcolm's inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith the intellectual and emotional precision for which she is known, Malcolm looks at the trial—\"a contest between competing narratives\"—from every conceivable angle. It is the chasm between our ideals of justice and the human factors that influence every trial—from divergent lawyering abilities to the nature of jury selection, the malleability of evidence, and the disposition of the judge—that is perhaps most striking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSurely one of the most keenly observed trial books ever written, \u003cem\u003eIphigenia in Forest Hills\u003c\/em\u003e is ultimately about character and \"reasonable doubt.\" As Jeffrey Rosen writes, it is \"as suspenseful and exciting as a detective story, with all the moral and intellectual interest of a great novel.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIphigenia in Forest Hills\u003c\/em\u003e is another dazzling triumph from Janet Malcolm. Here, as always, Malcolm's work inspires the best kind of disquiet in a reader—the obligation to think.\" —Jeffrey Toobin, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A remarkable achievement that ranks with Malcolm's greatest books. Her scrupulous reporting and interviews with protagonists on both sides of the trial make her own narrative as suspenseful and exciting as a detective story, with all the moral and intellectual interest of a great novel.\" —Jeffrey Rosen, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072572440812,"sku":"9780300181708","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23814823482294.jpg?v=1765118344"},{"product_id":"the-journalist-and-the-murderer-by-janet-malcolm-9781783784547","title":"The Journalist And The Murderer","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 author of a book about the crime. Lauded as one of the Modern Library's \"100 Best Works of Nonfiction\", \u003ci\u003eThe Journalist and the Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e is fascinating and controversial, a contemporary classic of reportage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072743489772,"sku":"9781783784547","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2460303482823.jpg?v=1765129508"},{"product_id":"two-lives-by-janet-malcolm-9780300143102","title":"Two Lives","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography: the story of the mystifying relationship between the brilliant and affable Gertrude Stein and her brooding companion, Alice B. Toklas.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Janet Malcolm deftly captures Alice B. Toklas's legendary 40-year partnership with the brilliant modernist Gertrude Stein in \u003cem\u003eTwo Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, clearing up a few mysteries along the way—including how two Jewish women were able to survive World War II in their provincial French château with the help of a Vichy collaborator.\"—\u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Shrewd, humane, and beautifully written.\"—John Gross, \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?\" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master \"whose charm was as conspicuous as her fatness\" and \"thin, plain, tense, sour\" Alice B. Toklas, the \"worker bee\" who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate \"marriage.\" As Malcolm pursues the truth of the couple's charmed life in a village in Vichy France, her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth. \"The instability of human knowledge is one of our few certainties,\" she writes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe portrait of the legendary couple that emerges from this work is unexpectedly charged. The two world wars Stein and Toklas lived through together are paralleled by the private war that went on between them. 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