Journalist Janet Malcolm didn’t shy away from judgment

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New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm recognised that many professions are indefensible and indispensable at once | Opinion by mrseankelly

. She, too, is one of the great political writers of our age. She won’t be remembered that way by most – she will, accurately, be remembered as simply one of the greatest writers – but she should be.

Malcolm wrote about courtrooms. She wrote about literary biography. She wrote about journalism, psychoanalysis, and photography. She saw that the way we talk about the world ultimately shapes the world. And she understood that, on many occasions, the conventions that govern these forms of storytelling mean that other crucial bits of evidence are unfairly sliced away.

 

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