Janet Malcolm

'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' The author asks at the beginning of this work of literary biography and investigativ

For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice

Janet Malcolm's revelatory biography of the tumultuous union of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and the critical battle that overshadows their legacies.

'Reading Chekhov is a literary pilgrimage, homage, travelogue, biography, literary criticism and a restrained love letter all rolled into one ... It i

In 1970 Jeffrey MacDonald was accused of murdering his pregnant wife, and the journalist Joe McGinniss decided to write a book about it. Malcolm's cla

Janet Malcolm's gripping investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud's legacy endeavours to untangle the causes of their rivalry and sou

In this best-selling introductory textbook, Janet Holmes and Nick Wilson examine the role of language in a variety of social contexts, considering b

‘Juist omdat je als het ware door kinderogen ziet waarom Auschwitz ‘de dodelijkste plek op aarde’ was, is dit een verhaal dat je raakt.’  **** ½ Visie

ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURYIn the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in

*A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*'The best and most enjoyable kind of history writing' Hilary Mantel'A bona fide h

‘De Bommenwerpermaffia is een historisch what if-verhaal.’ – de Volkskrant In 1945 dwongen massale en allesverwoestende bombardementen met brandbom

From the celebrated author of The Journalist and the Murderer and Reading Chekhov comes a brilliant, compelling collection of essays on art, artists a

Deals with a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention. The defendant, Mozoltuv

A fascinating exploration of psychoanlysis, its patients, practitioners and critics, from one of America's most respected and most controversial journ

The classic guide to love, sex, and intimacy beyond the limits of conventional monogamy has been fully updated to reflect today's modern attitudes and

Intuition is often presented as the opposite of structured achievement. There are people who intuit the answer to a problem, and there are those who w

Het boek Intuïtie betekende de doorbraak voor Malcolm Gladwell in Nederland. Het is een boek dat werkt op verschillende niveaus. Het legt uit hoe besl

One of the last criminal trials using the 1735 Witchcraft Act was, improbably, in London in 1944. The accused was Helen Duncan, a middle-aged Scotswom