“Malcolm’s memoir slips into being a commentary on memoir. Most autobiography assumes a proximity...This one argues instead that memories must be fought for..."

CRC Director Katie Roiphe on #JanetMalcolm’s “Still Pictures" for @TheAtlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/01/janet-malcolm-still-pictures-book-memoir-autobiography/672728/

#book #bookreview #journalism

I hope you subscribe to #AirMail, because you REALLY oughtta read this #ErrolMorris piece about #JanetMalcolm https://airmail.news/issues/2023-1-21/the-postmodernist-and-the-drowning-man

"Chekhov’s strange, coded works almost force us to sound them for hidden meanings... we don’t want to miss the clues that Chekhov has scattered about his garden and covered with last year’s leaves. These leaves are fixtures of Chekhov’s world ...and exemplify Chekhov’s way of endowing some small quiet natural phenomenon with #metaphorical meaning... Reading #Chekhov: A Critical Journey by #JanetMalcolm #nonfiction #bookstodon #books #RussianLiterature #essay #literature https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1107183.Reading_Chekhov