Review 'One of the best journalists writing in English anywhere' --Financial Times 'It is often overlooked how good a reporter Malcolm is, fearless in her questioning, ruthless in her pursuit of every last witness. The Journalist and the Murderer is a lesson in not courting your subject too much' --Guardian 'A spare and unsparing account of tragicomic human folly'-- The Times 'A timely reissue for Janet Malcolm's 1990 classic, which caused a storm when it was first published for its uncompromising analysis of the ethics - and otherwise - within the slippery relationship between a journalist and her subject'-- Metro 'Malcolm's seminal 1990 work about the ethics of journalism is at once reportage, a scrutinising look at the practice and a cautionary tale of personal manipulation and betrayal'-- --Big Issue About the Author Janet Malcolm's books include Reading Chekhov, In the Freud Archives, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession. Born in Prague, she grew up in New York, where she now lives.
M**N
Fascinating look into the author/journalist and subject relationship including how ...
Fascinating look into the author/journalist and subject relationship including how it can be skewed over time and by the rollercoaster of ego.
R**I
janet malcolm - new journalism
An article in a weekly magazine portrayed three female writers of New Journalism (1960s) so I browsed and ordered some recommended work, one of which this book. It does illustrate very well the trappings a wrter / journalist may face. Enjoyed it thoroughly.
J**M
strongly recommended
This is a deeply provocative work - in the best sense of the term - and one which raises some basic questions about the trade of journalism. It is also extremely well-written.
D**I
Well packaged, timely delivery
I'm quite happy with the punctuality of my delivery!I was recommended this book in one of my journalism classes and it's a great read so far! Definitely makes you think about the media, crime and the fascination with it all! Must-read!
R**T
Five Stars
fantastic read for any book enthusiast.
J**N
Not the detective story I thought it was!
More factual than I was expecting but some interesting arguments, explores a real case and considers the motivations of the participants
L**A
A must read
Brilliant book!
S**8
The air of superior wisdom grows wearing after a while...
One could admire Janet Malcolm more if she a) didn't eternally project herself as more knowing, more intelligent, more able to penetrate to the very heart of the matter, than anybody else, most especially her (hapless) subjects, and b) weren't always giving heavy-handed Freudian explanations for all the phenomena and behaviours she describes. There is something both intolerably smug about her tone -- a sort of triumphant 'aha!' being the background note -- and infuriatingly reductive about her 'insights'.
M**R
Good read
Another angle to the Jefferey Macdonald story
J**H
Brilliant analysis of an incredibly strange
Brilliant analysis of an incredibly strange, morally complicated relationship between a journalist and a convicted murderer.
M**A
This is total rubbish
This book has to be the worst purchase I have ever made just pure trash and a waste of money I cannot for the life of me figure out that they found a publisher to print it
J**Y
The story about a case about a story about a case.
Mcginniss Joe : Fatal Vision (Signet)
T**R
Cleave the tautology of 'journalistic ethics'
In this beguiling work, Malcolm ascribes to the journalist-subject relationship the phenomenum which Heisenberg, working in atomic physics, characterised as the uncertainty...