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Book Review
The Crime of Sheila McGough , by Janet Malcolm. Alfred A. Knopf, 164 pages, $22. Does the law require you to be wary of a man who sends you flowers? Must you ask why when a convicted felon wants to use...
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Weighing ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ Jury Sees Ugly Side of Justice
A Trial by Jury , by D. Graham Burnett. Alfred A. Knopf, 183 pages, $21. “Just go in,” a friend once advised when I got called for jury duty, “and say, ‘I cannot be rational.’ Say, ‘I hate criminals,...
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Currently Hanging
Painting That’s Alive Today And Makes Its Home in the PastThe first thing you might think upon entering James Graham and Sons’ ground-floor space on Madison Avenue is that the gallery has mounted an...
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Painting That’s Alive Today And Makes Its Home in the Past
The first thing you might think upon entering James Graham and Sons’ ground-floor space on Madison Avenue is that the gallery has mounted an overview of an unheralded 19th-century painter, something...
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In Today’s Paper: A Meeting In The Ladies Room
Don’t miss today’s story on Elizabeth Redvers, a 15-year-old model-hopeful. It’s truly… wow. Of course, last night the Observer broke the news about Rupert Murdoch installing himself as publisher of...
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The New Yorker Uses the G-Word
Janet Malcolm is one of my idols, I’d read her shopping lists if someone would print them. Her book The Journalist and the Murderer is a cultural landmark, it changed the relationship of journalists...
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Ladies Lead in PEN's Literary Awards
Expect more gowns than tuxedos at the PEN awards ceremony on May 19 at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. The PEN American Center has concluded and it’s clear the sisters are doin’ it for...
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Mind Vacations
Ava Gardner’s posthumous tell-all. IT’S NEVER TOO EARLY to start thinking about summer—and how you might spend your leisure time in that season of possibility. There are getaways to plan, gardens to...
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Not Too Stupid: Reflections on 50 Years of Janet Malcolm’s Fatal Vision
Janet Malcolm. (Courtesy The New Yorker) In 2011, Janet Malcolm underwent the literary rite of a Paris Review interview. As part of its tradition, the magazine permits interview subjects to reread and...
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‘Janet Malcolm: The Emily Dickinson Series’ at Lori Bookstein Fine Art
‘David Todd (from the Emily Dickinson Series)’ (2013) by Malcolm. (Courtesy the artist and Lori Bookstein Fine Art) On the left side of Janet Malcolm’s collage Melbourne, under a crinkly, irregular...
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