Janet Malcolm
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Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.
From the Review
December 6, 2007: Keaton's Own Lens (letter)
September 27, 2007: Pandora's Click
Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe
February 15, 2007: 'The Not Returning Part of It'
Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life by Allen Shawn
January 15, 2004: Good Pictures
Diane Arbus Revelations Catalog of the exhibition by Sandra S. Phillips, Elisabeth Sussman, Doon Arbus, Neil Selkirk, and Jeff L. Rosenheim
Diane Arbus: Family Albums Catalog of the exhibition by Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz
December 5, 2002: Edward Weston's Women
Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration by Beth Gates Warren
Through Another Lens: My Years with Edward Weston by Charis Wilson and Wendy Madar
April 11, 2002: Nudes Without Desire
Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949–50 Catalog of the exhibition by Maria Morris Hambourg
Dancer: Photographs of Alexandra Beller by Irving Penn Catalog of the exhibition with an introduction by Anne Wilkes Tucker and an essay by Sylvia Wolf
June 21, 2001: Justice to J.D. Salinger
February 4, 1999: The Genius of the Glass House
Julia Margaret Cameron's Women 1998-January 10, 1999; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 27-May 24, 1999; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, August 27-November 30, 1999. an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 19,, Catalog of the exhibition by Sylvia Wolf, by others
October 23, 1997: It Happened in Milwaukee
Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment by Jane Gallop
March 6, 1997: Bellocq's Women (letter)
January 9, 1997: The Real Thing
Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, the Red-Light District of New Orleans reproduced from prints made by Lee Friedlander, Introduction by Susan Sontag, interviews edited by John Szarkowski
February 1, 1996: Aristocrats
Untitled by Diane Arbus
February 3, 1994: The Family of Mann
Immediate Family by Sally Mann, afterword by Reynolds Price
June 13, 1991: A Matter of Life and Death
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley
July 19, 1990: Nothing But the Truth? (letter)
June 14, 1990: The Trial of Alyosha
Letters to Olga June 1979–September 1982 by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson
March 1, 1990: The Morality of Journalism
April 28, 1988: Down There on a Visit
Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the New Guinea Jungle by Tobias Schneebaum
October 24, 1985: What Maisie Didn't Know
Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood by Angelica Garnett
May 9, 1985: Getting It Wrong: An Exchange
March 14, 1985: The Unreliable Genius
Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape, 1849–1928 by Ann Thwaite
February 28, 1985: Talking to the Analyst: An Exchange
December 20, 1984: The Patient Is Always Right
Analysis of Transference, Vol. I: Theory and Technique by Merton M. Gill
Analysis of Transference, Vol. II: Studies of Nine Audio-Recorded Psychoanalytic Sessions by Merton M. Gill, by Irwin Z. Hoffman
July 19, 1984: Oversight (letter)
May 10, 1984: The Game of Lights
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim
October 7, 1982: School of the Blind
Vedi by Ved Mehta
December 17, 1981: Wolfe in Wolfe's Clothing
From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
From New York Review Books
 | In the Freud Archives "In this brilliant and enjoyable book, a major crisis within one of the most important systems of ideas of our century is presented in the style of a movie vehicle for Jack Nicholson."—Anthony Quinton, Times Literary Supplement |
Books by Janet Malcolm
Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey (2002)
The Crime of Sheila Mcgough (1999)
Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography (1997)
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes (1994)
The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings (1993)
Collected Essays (1992)
The Journalist and the Murderer (1990)
In the Freud Archives (1984)
Psychoanalysis, the Impossible Profession (1981)
Diana & Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography (1980)