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 classic investigation sheds a fascinating light on the conflict and controversy that followed, and asks whether all journalists are, ultimately, immoral.
Janet Malcolm's books include Reading Chekhov, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Journalist and the Murderer and Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession. Born in Prague, she grew up in New York, where she now lives.
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*
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