Psychoanalysis: The Impossible ProfessionFrom the author of In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer comes an intensive look at the practice of psychoanalysis through interviews with Aaron Green, a Freudian analyst in New York City. "Janet Malcom has managed somehow to peer into the reticent, reclusive world of psychoanalysis and to report to us, with remarkable fidelity, what she has seen. Her book is journalism become art." Joseph Andelson, The New York Times Book Review

power and desire

tracing his travels around New England

So says anthropologist David Graeber in a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom

a seeming departure from her other works

Franz Kafka—putting her life

Eileen Myles

and Alma’s prodigal brother Jesús is expected at any moment

while knowing that the self is not something that can ever be fully lost

Black cloth over boards with some fading

distinct style

The landmark work of comics journalism by Joe Sacco

Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately