Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm began writing for The New Yorker in 1963. She was a staff writer at the magazine until her death, in 2021.
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Janet Malcolm on how the counsel for Mazoltuv Borukhova and Mikhail Mallayev, who were tried for the murder of Borukhova’s husband, shaped a dramatic trial.
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Janet Malcolm writes about Ingrid Sischy, the editor of Artforum magazine.
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PROFILE of Ingrid Sischy, the current editor of "Artforum" magazine. Ingrid Sischy became editor of "Artforum" at the age of 27. She was offered the job by…
Part 1 of Janet Malcolm’s 1983 story about the doyen of the Sigmund Freud Archives, Kurt Eissler, and his falling out with his former protégé, Jeffrey Masson—a plucky scholar with an unorthodox view of Freud.
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Part 2 of Janet Malcolm’s Profile of a Manhattan therapist as he reflects on what Freudian therapy can—and cannot—achieve.
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Janet Malcolm profiles a Manhattan therapist as he reflects on what Freudian therapy can—and cannot—achieve.
REPORTER AT LARGE about family therapy. For an hour a week for 8 weeks the writer sat behind a one-way mirror in an observation room in a psychiatric …
Janet Malcolm on photography, truth, artifice, and falsehood.