Review: April Bernard on Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm. Photo Nina Subin

Janet Malcolm’s brilliance, as a reporter and prose stylist, is inextricable from her idiosyncrasies—those sharp, amusing aperçus and that candid immersion of herself in the story which usually involves defining a conflict and then taking sides. When one agrees with her side, this seems just fine; when one disagrees, it se…

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