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In The Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Who will inherit the secrets of Sigmund Freud? Who will protect his reputation? Who may destroy it? Janet Malcolm's investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud's legacy has become a celebrated story of seduction and betrayal, love and hatred, fantasy and reality. It is both a comedy and a ...Show more
In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Who will inherit the secrets of Sigmund Freud? Who will protect his reputation? Who may destroy it? Janet Malcolm's investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud's legacy has become a celebrated story of seduction and betrayal, love and hatred, fantasy and reality. It is both a comedy and a ...Show more
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial by Janet Malcolm
$32.95 AUD
Category: American
Describes a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention.
Nobody's Looking at You - Essays by Janet Malcolm
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Janet Malcolm's previous collection, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, was 'unmistakably the work of a master' (New York Times Book Review). Like Forty-One False Starts, Nobody's Looking at You brings together previously uncompiled pieces, mainly from The New Yorker and the New Yor ...Show more
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm
$23.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
The process known as psychoanalysis is sometimes revered, sometimes derided, and most often misunderstood. What good does it do? Can it help anyone? What risks does it pose to both patient and analyst? None of these questions can be easily answered, but in Janet Malcolm's narrative, in which all her ski ...Show more
Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey by Janet Malcolm
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and framed by an account of a recent journey she made to St Petersburg. Malcolm demonstrates how the shadow of d ...Show more
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The 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 For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books poked and prodded at reportorial and biographica ...Show more
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
In 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 Libraries "100 Best Works of Nonfiction", The Journalist and the Murderer is ...Show more
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
'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'In 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 ...Show more
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of In the Freud Archives and The Purloined Clinic offers an elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography. In The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath to c ...Show more
Two Lives by Janet Malcolm
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary
'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, pla ...Show more
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