{"product_id":"the-journalist-and-the-murderer-by-janet-malcolm","title":"The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Malcolm’s view, neither journalist nor subject can avoid the moral impasse that is built into the journalistic situation. When the text first appeared, as a two-part article in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, its thesis seemed so radical and its irony so pitiless that journalists across the country reacted as if stung.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer book is a work of journalism as well as an essay on journalism: it at once exemplifies and dissects its subject. In her interviews with the leading and subsidiary characters in the MacDonald-McGinniss case — the principals, their lawyers, the members of the jury, and the various persons who testified as expert witnesses at the trial — Malcolm is always aware of herself as a player in a game that, as she points out, she cannot lose. The journalist-subject encounter has always troubled journalists, but never before has it been looked at so unflinchingly and so ruefully. Hovering over the narrative — and always on the edge of the reader’s consciousness — is the MacDonald murder case itself, which imparts to the book an atmosphere of anxiety and uncanniness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Journalist and the Murderer\u003c\/em\u003e derives from and reflects many of the dominant intellectual concerns of our time, and it will have a particular appeal for those who cherish the odd, the off-center, and the unsolved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanet Malcolm\u003c\/strong\u003e was an author and a journalist at \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e. Her books include \u003cem\u003eReading Chekhov: A Critical Journey\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e The Crime of Sheila McGough\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003e The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes\u003c\/em\u003e. Born in Prague, she grew up in New York. Janet Malcolm died in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52018258575669,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/journalist.jpg?v=1764701431","url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/products\/the-journalist-and-the-murderer-by-janet-malcolm","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}