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	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Malcolm went on probing the sore that is the writer and subject's relationship in her next book, "The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes" (1994), a dauntingly elegant reflection on the practice of biography.
		Malcolm's curiosity was piqued by the critical mauling of a Plath biography -- one that, uncharacteristically, defended Hughes -- by Anne Stevenson, a talented writer she had known, or at least known of, at the University of Michigan in the 1950s.
		Malcolm's eponymous heroine is, in her dowdy and unappealing literal-mindedness, the embodiment of this housecoat-wearing truth.
	dir.salon.com /people/bc/2000/02/29/malcolm (5071 words)

	The Crime of Sheila McGough:Malcolm, Janet:0375704590:eCampus.com
		In the winter of 1996, Janet Malcolm received a letter from a stranger -- a disbarred lawyer named Sheila McGough, who had recently been released from prison, and who wrote that she had been convicted of crimes she had not committed.
		Malcolm decided to look into the case, and this book -- a dazzling work of journalism as well as a searching meditation on character, on the law, and on the incompatibility of narrative with truth -- is the product of her growing belief that a miscarriage of justice had taken place.
		Malcolm's close readings of court records and her interviews with lawyers and businessmen connected with the case give a picture of American law and American cupidity that is startling in its pitiless specificity.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0375704590&referrer=yah04 (176 words)

	Encyclopedia: Janet Malcolm
		Janet Malcolm is an American author and journalist on the staff of The New Yorker magazine.
		Malcolm couldn't produce all the disputed material on tape.
		McGinniss's "Fatal Vision" concluded that MacDonald was a psychopath hopped up on amphetimines when he killed his family; however, McGinniss's "morally indefensible" act was to pretend that he thought MacDonald innocent even after he became convinced of his guilt and to thereby remain privy to defense team strategies.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Janet-Malcolm (514 words)

	Amazon.com: Crime of Sheila McGough, The: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Malcolm wants her point to be that McGough's dogged defense of her client is particularly unsuited to the legal system in America today, but her sweeping generalizations about the courts seem idiosyncratic and she faults lawyers for thinking of their profession as a career (one wonders what else she would have lawyers do).
		Janet Malcolm's portrayal of Sheila McGough is of conscientiousness gone awry; the over-zealous lawyer, hired by a con artist names Bob Bailes, guards her client's rights all the way to a prison cell.
		Malcolm avoids turning this into a case study of McGough's pathological literalism, which it surely could be, and instead presents her story as an allegory of the general disparity between intention and precise meaning.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375405089?v=glance (2583 words)

	ICE Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Malcolm's claim that she desires to know the truth, that she is going reconstruct what happened, and that her factfinding mission will free Sheila McGough, combined with her skepticism that she will be able to save McGough, makes her narrative compelling.
		Malcolm, however, makes another charge; McGough was convicted because her lawyers were unable to offer a powerful, and, in her view, truthful, counter-story to compete with the prosecutor's compelling narrative.
		Malcolm's narrative makes it clear that one reason for the refusal of the U.S. Attorney's Office to agree to the transfer of Bailes was that Assistant U.S. Attorney John Birch was annoyed, indeed irritated, with McGough's earlier efforts on behalf of Bailes.
	www.law.qub.ac.uk /ice/papers/reviews1.html (6175 words)

	Janet Malcolm and the essence of Chekhov, by Robert Fulford
		Janet Malcolm has devoted her brilliant career to identifying the tensions and ambivalence built into the work of therapists, journalists, photographers, biographers and other interpreters of the human condition.
		Malcolm's attitudes emerged at least partly from her background as the daughter of a Czech Jewish psychiatrist.
		Malcolm enacted with Masson the drama of betrayal that she later described as typical of journalism.
	www.robertfulford.com /JanetMalcolm.html (873 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Janet Malcolm
		Janet Malcolm's previous books are Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography; Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession; In the Freud Archives; The Journalist and the Murderer; The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings; The Silent Woman: Slyvia Plath and Ted Hughes; and The Crime of Sheila McGough.
		The Crime of Sheila McGough is Janet Malcolm's brilliant exposé of miscarriage of justice in the case of Sheila McGough, a disbarred lawyer recently released from prison.
		Janet Malcolm brings her shrewd intelligence to bear on the legend of Sylvia Plath and the wildly productive industry of Plath biographies.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=18770 (332 words)

	maureen mullarkey on janet malcolm at lori bookstein
		maureen mullarkey on janet malcolm at lori bookstein
		Janet Malcolm handles the medium with the same attention to nuance, the same passion for exactitude that informs her writing.
		Malcolm's work speaks eloquently of the life of the mind and its capacity to civilize, order and interpret the confusion of the lived life.
	www.artcritical.com /blurbs/MMMalcolm.htm (982 words)

	Janet Malcolm -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Janet Malcolm is an American (Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) author and (A writer for newspapers and magazines) journalist on the staff of (additional info and facts about The New Yorker) The New Yorker magazine.
		Her book, Inside The Freud Archives, triggered a $10M legal challenge by (additional info and facts about Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson) Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, who claimed that Malcolm had libelled him by fabricating explosive quotations by him that brought him into disrepute.
		The case was even partially adjudicated before the Supreme Court (see the opinion at), and after years of proceeedings, a jury finally found against Masson in 1994.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/janet_malcolm.htm (339 words)

	Salon People \| Janet Malcolm
		The public pillorying of Janet Malcolm is one of the scandals of American letters.
		Malcolm was born in prewar Prague, one of two daughters (the other is the writer Marie Winn) of secular Jews; the family got out of Europe just in time, in 1939.
		The book sounds the major themes of Malcolm's work: the elusiveness of truth; the paucity of the means (therapeutic, journalistic, etc.) we pursue it with; and the unreliability of narrative -- the stories we tell to pin it down, which are always incomplete and (consciously or otherwise) self-serving.
	www.salon.com /people/bc/2000/02/29/malcolm (929 words)

	Boston Globe Online / From the Archives / Books
		A central theme in Malcolm's work is the way in which narratives compete to form a dominant version of the truth, which is partly what drew her to the legal and he-said/she-said swampland of this woman's case.
		When Malcolm met her, she was 54 and just out of prison; the mastermind con artist behind her conviction, Bob Bailes, had died the year before, so that McGough felt free to speak out about her trial.
		The casserole was ``incomparable,'' Malcolm tells us, ``and I fell easily into my role of the nice friend Sheila had brought home from school to meet her mom and dad.'' No portrait of innocence was ever more damning, revealing, and compassionate at once.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/books/janet_malcolm.htm (1060 words)

	Mixed Media - Arts & Opinions - MSNBC.com
		Malcolm’s outburst may have reflected a natural case of preshow jitters, but along with other hints it suggested the tensions that can arise when those who are known for one pursuit attempt another, quite different, activity in public.
		Were Janet Malcolm hailed tomorrow as the new Picasso, this would not fully erase her reputation as a journalist and the notoriety of the sentence that begins her book “The Journalist and the Murderer.
		Malcolm, now 69, is also known for the lengthy, bitter and unsuccessful defamation action that ex-director of the Freud Archives Jeffrey Masson brought against herself and “The New Yorker.” In person, the writer is shy, wry and witty, but mostly shy; her last book, “Reading Chekhov” devotes many pages to praising the Russian master’s self-effacement.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3638911/site/newsweek (1668 words)

	Fallows and Rosen Jeffrey Rosen
		Malcolm is advancing the "no one can tell the truth" argument about the law, but the structure of the book demonstrates it as it applies to journalism.
		Malcolm, by contrast, made it her mission to tell the story that Sheila was unable to tell, with all the artfulness, editorial judgment, and narrative selectivity that Sheila didn't possess.
		Malcolm finds her metaphor for the stories that lawyers tell in the vacant rooms where so much of the business that led to Sheila's conviction had been conducted: "Law stories are empty stories," she writes.
	www.slate.com /id/2000025/entry/1002225 (1615 words)

	Russia, Literature, Chekhov
		Malcolm's chauffeur to fasten his seat belt leads to a discussion of the theme of avoidance -- the "resistance to advances in knowledge" -- in Chekhov's stories and letters.
		Malcolm's habit of citing the opinions of other critics and biographers and then providing cursory summaries of their views.
		Malcolm's part, and it also belies her own penchant in these pages for dispensing platitudes that do nothing to illuminate Chekhov's work.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/5580-15.cfm (557 words)

	Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey - smh.com.au
		And it's the question that Janet Malcolm steeliest and most decorous of investigative journalists worries at in this brief, agile book, one that begins as a reader's act of homage but ends as something more: a tonic, perhaps, for the fact-bloat swelling the pages of so much contemporary life-writing.
		Reading Chekhov is a slender volume that grows from three narrative shoots: Malcolm's own literary pilgrimage in the footsteps of the great Russian short-story writer and playwright, Anton Chekhov; a skeleton biography of this man's sad, industrious life; and a critical panoptic of his remarkable body of work.
		Malcolm recounts one occasion when the writer was asked to provide a brief biography for a university reunion.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/04/17/1050172695052.html (591 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Malcolm Convicts with Innocent Pleasure
		Malcolm is an excellent and witty tour guide through this material, some of the densest thickets of bureaucratic confusion this side of Kafka.
		At its worst (which, given Malcolm's excitement and insight as a journalist, isn't very bad), the book founders on Malcolm's signature theme: the biases of the journalist as a narrator who chooses sides in the fight over which stories are true.
		Because Malcolm's style emphasizes the investigations and interviews as that essence of her journalistic process, these perfect tangents and odd details tend to add up to something tangible.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=155488 (561 words)

	31773 Sergeant Harold Thomas Malcolm, South African Engineer Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Owing to a case of sickness on board their troopship, HMT Oriana, Private Malcolm and the rest of the 4th South African Infantry, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel F.A. Jones, were placed in quarantine and moved to a camp at La Valentine, a farm outside of Marseilles.
		Malcolm’s service papers contain the following entry: "ex P.O.W. 16/11/40." This entry is interpreted to mean that on some date prior to the 16th of November 1940 Malcolm was captured and then returned to South African control on the 16th of November.
		Malcolm was reclassified B.1 on the 24th of November and on the 26th of November he was struck off the strength of the Base Sub Depot at Hay Paddock Camp and embarked at Durban on board the SS Highland Brigade with Egypt as his destination.
	members.aol.com /reubique/31773.htm (3019 words)

	Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc., 501 U.S. 496 (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Malcolm submitted to the District Court that not all of her discussions with petitioner were recorded on tape, in particu- lar conversations that occurred while the two of them walked together or traveled by car, while petitioner stayed at Mal- colm's home in New York, or while her tape recorder was in- operable.
		Second, Malcolm had the tapes in her possession and was not working under a tight deadline.
		Although Malcolm did not include all of petitioner's lengthy explanation of his name change, she did convey the gist of that explanation: Petitioner took his abandoned family name as his middle name.
	straylight.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/89-1799.ZO.html (7406 words)

	Art in America: Janet Malcolm at Lori Bookstein
		The successful woman when Malcolm came of age (she's 69) was not only a minority in a man's world but also obscured, the artist suggests, by prejudice.
		Malcolm is cognizant of her artistic forebears; in Lieber Pepik (2001), one of the assembled scraps was lifted from a text on Kurt Schwitters.
		Books are literally consumed in Malcolm's project, their tattered brown leather covers used as grounds for pasted papers in Bible and Extra Buttons (both 2003), the card pocket torn from a library book deployed as the central component in American Photography (2003).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_5_92/ai_n6038674 (496 words)

	Books : The Silent Woman : Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (Vintage) \| Online shopping \| The Silent Woman : Sylvia Plath ...
		When Janet Malcolm was first sent the book, she was less drawn to it by the Plath legend than by the fact that she had known Stevenson in the '50s, but she soon became captivated by the book's defeatist subtext.
		Because Malcolm's great theme is treachery--that of the interviewer, the journalist, the teller of just about any tale--the Plath mess seemed a perfect fit, and she decided to become a player, too.
		Also, Malcolm claims to be on the "side" of Ted Hughes, but I still think she gives a fairly balanced view of the whole situation.
	www.selfbuying.com /lookitem-0679751408.html (995 words)

	Malcolm, Janet: Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In this short volume, Janet Malcolm frames a series of reflections on Chekhov's life and work with her pilgrimage to Chekhov-related sites in Russia and the Ukraine.
		The book begins with Malcolm's visit to Oreanda, a village on the Crimean coast near Yalta, which is the site where the fictional lovers in Chekhov's story "The Lady with the Dog" (1899, see annotation) sit quietly and look out at the sea on the morning after their first sexual encounter.
		She quotes the Russian critic Sherbinin, who wrote, "Chekhov was the Russian writer most conversant with the rites and texts of Orthodoxy, as jarring as such a claim might seem, given the centrality of Christian thought to the giants of nineteenth century letters." (p.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/malcolm11969-des-.html (400 words)

	Salon.com Books \| The journalist and the provocateur
		Janet Malcolm talks about her new book on Chekhov, the perils of offending journalists and the long shadow of her libel lawsuit.
		During the years of the lawsuit and even afterward, Malcolm was routinely represented by the press as an example of bad, unethical journalism.
		And yet it is a departure, too: Its subject is dead, for one thing, and the book does not, like most of her work, attempt to weave together a complete narrative, with a beginning, middle and end, out of interviews, research and common sense.
	archive.salon.com /books/int/2001/11/28/malcolm (597 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: In the Freud Archives: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		Malcolm's cast of characters includes K.R. Eissler, a venerable psychoanalyst and keeper of the Freud flame; Jeffrey Mason, a flamboyant Sanskrit scholar and virulent anti-Freudian; and Peter Swales, a former assistant to the Rolling Stones and indefatigable researcher.
		Malcolm endeavours to untangle the causes of their rivalry and soured friendships, while the flaws and mysteries of Freud's early work tower in the background.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1862075980 (357 words)

	Amazon.com: The Journalist and the Murderer (Vintage): Books: Janet Malcolm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Janet Malcolm does not reopen the MacDonald case in her book, "The Journalist and the Murderer." Rather, she examines the issues behind a libel case that MacDonald brought in 1984 against his supposed friend, Joe McGinnis, author of "Fatal Vision." Joe McGinniss posed as a friend of Jeffrey MacDonald for years.
		Malcolm's book is an important one, since it serves as a warning for those naive people who are only too eager to believe everything that they read in a newspaper or a magazine.
		Janet Malcolm takes a very interesting premise--the relationship of a journalist to his subject--and turns it into a trite essay on the gruesome MacDonald murders.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679731830?v=glance (2165 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: Reading Chekhov
		Malcolm is a writer who, in previous works such as The Journalist and the Murderer and The Silent Woman, has examined those same tensions between knowledge of what is known and what is revealed.
		Malcolm introduces us to Chekhov while exposing new layers of his genius and his work.
		But in addition, Malcolm invites anyone struggling to understand what it means to be human into a space of personal meditation and questioning.
	www.bookpage.com /0111bp/nonfiction/reading_chekhov.html (388 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Silent Woman, the: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Malcolm's book is a compelling look at the process of writing a biography, as well as an interesting biography of Plath's and Hughes's relationship in itself.
		Not only does Janet Malcolm peice together the life of Sylvia Plath, but her famous persona that began to grow upon her death.
		Malcolm also sneaks in a heafty dose of poison to the biography industry as well, making an example out of Plath and her family.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679431586 (1317 words)

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