Janet Malcolm wrote literary journalism and essays about reporting, psychoanalysis, biography, photography and the uneasy relationship between a writer and a subject. The Journalist and the Murderer examines author Joe McGinniss's relationship with convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald and uses the case to ask what journalists owe to people who give them access. The Silent Woman approaches the lives of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes through the competing claims of biographers, relatives and literary estates, while In the Freud Archives follows disputes among scholars of psychoanalysis. Forty-One False Starts collects shorter pieces on artists and writers, showing Malcolm's interest in how a profile is constructed as well as who is being profiled. Her prose is cool, precise and sceptical, fitting literary journalism, media ethics, biography studies and essays on art. The Journalist and the Murderer is the central book for media ethics, while The Silent Woman and In the Freud Archives show how Malcolm applies the same scepticism to biography, archives and the people who control access to a story. Read more Less
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