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Books

Original nonfiction

Listed with original magazine publication.

• Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981)
  • "The Impossible Profession" (The New Yorker, 1980)
• In the Freud Archives (1984)
  • "Trouble in the Archives" (The New Yorker, 1983)
  • Afterword to the UK paperback edition (1997), also in the US reissue (2002)
• The Journalist and the Murderer (1990)
  • "The Journalist and the Murderer" (The New Yorker, 1989)
  • "The Morality of Journalism" (The New York Review of Books, 1990)
• The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes (1994)
  • "The Silent Woman" (The New Yorker, 1993)
  • Afterword to the paperback edition (1994)
• The Crime of Sheila McGough (1999)
• Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey (2001)
  • "Travels with Chekhov" (The New Yorker, 2000)
  • "Three Journeys" (The New Yorker, 2001)
• Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (2007)
  • "Gertrude Stein's War" (The New Yorker, 2003)
  • "Someone Says Yes to It" (The New Yorker, 2005)
  • "Strangers in Paradise" (The New Yorker, 2006)
• Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial (2011)
  • "Iphigenia in Forest Hills" (The New Yorker, 2010)
• Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory (2023)
  • "A Work of Art" (The New York Review of Books, 2018)
  • "Six Glimpses of the Past" (The New Yorker, 2018)
  • "Lovesick" (The New York Review of Books, 2020)
  • "A Second Chance" (The New York Review of Books, 2020)
  • "My Father's Bad Seats at the Opera" (newyorker.com, 2022)
  • "Skromnost" (Granta, 2022)

Essay collections

• Diana & Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography (1980)
  • Expanded edition: Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography (1997)
• The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings (1992)
• Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers (2013)
• Nobody's Looking at You: Essays (2019)

Photography

• Burdock (2008)

As editor

• Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories; translated by Constance Garnett; selected, with a preface by Janet Malcolm (2018)
  • The Lady with the Dog, Ionitch, The Party, The Kiss, The Darling, The Grasshopper, The Man in a Case, Gooseberries, About Love, Easter Eve, The Bishop, A Woman's Kingdom, The New Villa, The Schoolmistress, Enemies, Lights, The Beauties
• Anton Chekhov, The Duel and Other Stories; translated by Constance Garnett; selected, with a preface by Janet Malcolm (2020)
  • The Duel, A Dreary Story, In the Ravine, Three Years
• Anton Chekhov, Ward No. 6 and Other Stories; translated by Constance Garnett; selected, with a preface by Janet Malcolm (2020)
  • The Wife, The Steppe, Ward No. 6, My Life

Shorter work

Collected in Diana & Nikon

In the original 1980 edition:

• "East and West" ("Two Photographers", The New Yorker, 1974) Review of Alfred Stieglitz by Dorothy Norman and Edward Weston by Ben Maddow
• "Assorted Characters of Death and Blight" ("The Dark Life and Dazzling Art Of Edward Weston", The New York Times, 1975) Review of an Edward Weston retrospective
• "Certainties and Possibilities" (The New Yorker, 1975) Review of a show by Irving Penn and the work of Garry Winogrand
• "Men Without Props" (The New Yorker, 1975) Review of a show by Richard Avedon
• "Diana and Nikon" (The New Yorker, 1976) Review of The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski and The Snapshot edited by Jonathan Green
• "The View from Plato's Cave" (The New Yorker, 1976) Essay on photojournalism and review of a show by Nina Alexander and Herta Hilscher-Wittgenstein
• "Color" (The New Yorker, 1977) Essay on "Photo-Realism" and William Eggleston
• "A Series of Proposals" (The New Yorker, 1978) Review of a show by Richard Avedon
• "Two Roads, One Destination" ("Two Roads", The New Yorker, 1978) Review of shows by Eve Sonneman and Harry Callahan
• "Artists and Lovers" (The New Yorker, 1979) Review of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz
• "Slouching Towards Bethlehem, PA" (The New Yorker, 1979) Review of Walker Evans by Walker Evans, The Americans by Robert Frank, and Interior America by Chauncey Hare

Added to the expanded 1997 edition:

• "Maximilian's Sombrero" (The New Yorker, 1981) Review of the show "Before Photography" curated by Peter Galassi
• "Pink Roses" (The New Yorker, 1989) Review of Bonnettstown by Andrew Bush
• "The Family of Mann" (The New York Review of Books, 1994) Review of Immediate Family by Sally Mann
• "Aristocrats" (The New York Review of Books, 1996) Review of Untitled by Diane Arbus
• "The Real Thing" (The New York Review of Books, 1997) Review of Bellocq by E.J. Bellocq

Collected in The Purloined Clinic

• "Dora" ("J'appelle un Chat un Chat", The New Yorker, 1987) Essay on Freud's case histories
• "Six Roses ou Cirrhose" (The New Yorker, 1983) Review of Narrative Truth and Historical Truth by Donald P. Spence
• "The Patient is Always Right" (The New York Review of Books, 1984) Review of Analysis of Transference by Merton M. Gill and Irwin Z. Hoffman
• "The Seven-Minute Hour" ("Therapeutic Rudeness", The New York Times Book Review, 1983) Review of Jacques Lacan by Stuart Schneiderman

• "The Quarterly Affair" ("The Unreliable Genius", The New York Review of Books, 1985) Review of Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape by Ann Thwaite
• "What Maisie Didn't Know" (The New York Review of Books, 1985) Review of Deceived with Kindness by Angelica Garnett
• "School of the Blind" (The New York Review of Books, 1981) Review of Vedi by Ved Mehta
• "A Problem of Growth" ("A Matter of Life and Death", The New York Review of Books, 1991) Review of Wartime Lies by Louis Begley
• "Schneebaum's Confessions" ("Down There on a Visit", The New York Review of Books, 1988) Review of Where the Spirits Dwell by Tobias Schneebaum
• "Wolfe in Wolfe's Clothing" (The New York Review of Books, 1981) Review of From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
• "The Purloined Clinic" (The New Yorker, 1987) Review of Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane by Michael Fried
• "Kundera's Legerdemain" ("The Game of Lights", The New York Review of Books, 1984) Review of The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• "The Trial of Alyosha" (The New York Review of Books, 1990) Review of Letters to Olga by Václav Havel

• "The One-Way Mirror" (The New Yorker, 1978) Report on family therapy
• "A Girl of the Zeitgeist" (The New Yorker, 1986) Profile of Ingrid Sischy
• "The Window Washer" (The New Yorker, 1990) Report from Prague following the Velvet Revolution

Collected in Forty-one False Starts

• "Forty-one False Starts" (The New Yorker, 1994) Profile of David Salle
• "Depth of Field" (The New Yorker, 2011) Profile of Thomas Struth
• "A House of Ones Own" (The New Yorker, 1995) Reported essay on Bloomsbury, Vanessa Bell and Charleston
• "The Woman Who Hated Women" (The New York Times Book Review, 1986) Review of novels by Edith Wharton
• "Salinger's Cigarettes" ("Justice to J.D. Salinger", The New York Review of Books, 2001) Essay on Salinger's later fiction
• "Capitalist Pastorale" (The New York Review of Books, 2009) Review of the novels of Gene Stratton-Porter and two biographies
• "The Genius of the Glass House" (The New York Review of Books, 1999) Review of the photography exhibition "Julia Margaret Cameron’s Women"
• "Good Pictures" (The New York Review of Books, 1999) Review of the photography exhibition catalogs Diane Arbus Revelations and Diane Arbus: Family Albums
• "Edward Weston's Women" (The New York Review of Books, 2002) Review of Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston by Beth Gates Warren and Through Another Lens: My Years With Edward Weston by Charis Wilson and Wendy Madar
• "Nudes Without Desire" (The New York Review of Books, 2002) Review of the photography exhibition catalogs Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes and Dancer: Photographs of Alexandra Beller by Irving Penn
• "A Girl of the Zeitgeist" (The New Yorker, 1986, and The Purloined Clinic) Profile of Ingrid Sischy
• "Advanced Placement" (The New Yorker, 2008) Review of the Gossip Girl novels by Cecily von Ziegesar
• "The Not Returning Part of It" (The New York Review of Books, 2007) Review of Wish I Could Be There by Allen Shawn
• "William Shawn" ("Remembering Mr. Shawn", The New Yorker, 1992) Remembrance of William Shawn
• "Joseph Mitchell" (The New Yorker, 1996) Remembrance of Joseph Mitchell
• "Thoughts on Autobiography from an Abandoned Autobiography" (The New York Review of Books, 2010) Short autobiographical essay

Collected in Nobody's Looking at You

• "Nobody's Looking at You" (The New Yorker, 2013) Profile of Eileen Fisher
• "Performance Artist" (The New Yorker, 2016) Profile of Yuja Wang
• "Three Sisters" ("The Book Refuge", The New Yorker, 2014) Profile of the owners of the Argosy Book Store
• "The Émigré" (The New Yorker, 2004) Profile of the radio broadcaster George Jellinek
• "The Storyteller" (The New Yorker, 2017) Profile of Rachel Maddow

• "The Art of Testifying" (The New Yorker, 2006) Report on the Senate confirmation hearings of John Roberts and Samuel Alito
• "Special Needs" (The New York Review of Books, 2011) Review of the TV show Sarah Palin's Alaska
• "Comedy Central on the Mall (The New York Review of Books, 2010) Review of The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
• "Pandora's Click" (The New York Review of Books, 2007) Review of Send by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe

• "Dreams and Anna Karenina" (The New York Review of Books, 2015) Essay on Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• "Socks" (The New York Review of Books, 2015) Essay on translations of Russian literature, particularly those of Pevear and Volokhonsky
• "The Master Writer of the City" (The New York Review of Books, 2015) Review of Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker by Thomas Kunkel
• "Women at War: A Case of Sexual Harassment" (The New Yorker, 1997) Review of The First Stone by Helen Garner
• "It Happened in Milwaukee" (The New York Review of Books, 1997) Review of Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment by Jane Gallop
• "Sisters, Lovers, Tarts, and Friends" (The New York Times Book Review, 1996) Review of Bloomsbury Recalled by Quentin Bell
• "'A Very Sadistic Man'" (The New York Review of Books, 2016) Review of Ted Hughes by Jonathan Bate
• "Remember the Ladies" ("The Weaker Sex", The New York Times Book Review, 2005) Review of In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
• "'I Should Have Made Him for a Dentist'" (The New York Review of Books, 2018) Review of Making It by Norman Podhoretz

Uncollected

• "Graven Images" (The New Yorker, 1987) Review of The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
• "The Psychoanalyst Plays Polo" (The New York Times Book Review, 1989) Review of The Long Wait by M. Masud R. Khan
• "The Sunny Side of Psychoanalysis" (The New York Times Book Review, 1994) Review of On Flirtation by Adam Phillips
• "Easy Time" (The New Yorker, 1995) Report on a prison visit to Jeffrey MacDonald, of The Journalist and the Murderer
• "Comment" (The New Yorker, October 5, 1998) Short comment on the Starr report
• "Keeper of Freud's Secrets" (The New York Times, 2000) Remembrance of Kurt Eissler
• "As the French Do" (The New Yorker, 2002) Short memoir on cooking from The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook
• "What Happened to Michelle in Forest Hills?" "The Fate of Michelle Malakova: 'Oppositional Behavior,'" and "Michelle: Surviving in a Fixed World" (The New York Review of Books, 2013) Report on the case of Michelle Malakova, the child from Iphigenia in Forest Hills
• "On Meeting Mr. and Mrs. Eliot" (The Paris Review, 2017) Short memoir in verse
• "Robert B. Silvers (1929–2017)" (The New York Review of Books, 2017) Short remembrance of Robert B. Silvers
• "The Unholy Practice" (The New Yorker, 2019) Review of Sontag by Benjamin Moser

Early work

"About the House"

The "About the House" column appeared in The New Yorker, usually without any further title. Articles up to 1969 were bylined just "J.M."

• May 28, 1966 (Furnishings for country houses and gardens)
• September 10, 1966 (Desks)
• April 8, 1967 (Apartment kitchens)
• May 20, 1967 (Learning woodworking and rug hooking)
• April 6, 1968 (Antique reproduction furniture)
• June 15, 1968 (Convenient contrivances)
• September 7, 1968 (Georg Jensen furniture showroom)
• "Child’s play," November 9, 1968 (Gourmet cooking equipment)
• March 29, 1969 (Dirk Kooiman’s furniture)
• May 3, 1969 (Household objects that cost no more than $2)
• June 7, 1969 (Appliances for household jobs & "Clotheslines U.S.A." by Helen Mather)
• July 12, 1969 ("Stiched in Time: American Needlework, Past and Present")
• September 20, 1969 (Modern furniture)
• "Feat of Clay," October 18, 1969 (Early American pottery)
• "Craft Ebbing," October 25, 1969 ("Objects U.S.A." at the Smithsonian Collection of Fine Arts)
• May 2, 1970 (Hector Guimard exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art)
• May 9, 1970 (Multipurpose furniture & William Morris)
• June 20, 1970 (Drawings and prints)
• August 8, 1970 (Shaker Museum in Hancock, MA)
• September 5, 1970 (Italian furniture)
• November 7, 1970 (Knoll and D/R)
• February 13, 1971 (Ornamental vs. functional furniture)
• April 10, 1971 (Designer furniture)
• May 1, 1971 (Photographic prints)
• May 15, 1971 (Furniture for low-income households)
• July 3, 1971 (Wedding presents)
• September 18, 1971 (Art Deco)
• September 25, 1971 (Aleksandra Kasuba’s "Environment")
• November 13, 1971 (“Country furniture” at the Handex Gallery)
• March 18. 1972 (Fumio Yoshimura’s studio)
• May 6, 1972 (Bookstores)
• June 17, 1972 (Good quality furniture)
• July 15, 1972 (Renwick Gallery and Brooklyn Museum)
• July 29, 1972 ("Italy: The New Domestic Landscape" at the Museum of Modern Art)
• September 9, 1972 (Bathroom fixtures)
• November 4, 1972 (Furniture-in-the-Raw & Kitchen equipment)
• March 3, 1973 (Shaker furniture)
• April 21, 1973 (Useless modern appliances)
• June 2, 1973 (Wedding presents)
• June 9, 1973 (Charles Eames)
• August 12, 1974 ("Non-rural" furniture and household objects)
• September 2, 1974 (Quilts)
• November 4, 1974 (Modern furniture)

Other work

• "'Can You Hear Me?'" (The New Republic, 1959) Report from a symposium on "The Future of Man"
• "Elegy for an Herbalist", as Janet Winn (The New Republic, 1963) Poem
• "Thoughts on Living in a Shaker House" (The New Yorker, 1963) Poem
• "Children's Books for Christmas" (The New Yorker, December 17, 1966)
• "Children's Books for Christmas" (The New Yorker, December 16, 1967)
• "Paley Park" (The New Yorker, 1968) Short essay on Paley Park, New York City
• "Children's Books for Christmas" (The New Yorker, December 14, 1968)
• "Help!" (The New Republic, 1970) Essay on Women's Liberation and housekeeping
• "Growing Up Puerile" (The Nation, 1973) Essay on child-rearing

Criticism for The New Republic

Under the byline "Janet Winn".

• "The Crass Menagerie" (1957) Review of the film "Baby Doll"
• "Radio Folks and Royalty" (1957) Review of the films "The Great Man" and "Anastasia"
• "Symposium" (1957) Review of the film "The Bachelor Party"
• "Joan and the Sweet Smell of Success" (1957) Review of the films "Saint Joan" and "Sweet Smell of Success"
• "Black and White Trash" (1957) Review of the 1915 film "Birth of a Nation"
• "The Ruby Yacht of Paramount" with Donald Malcolm (Sep 16 1957) Review of the film "Omar Khayyam"
• "Witch-Hunting with a Real Witch" (1957) Review of the play "The Egghead"
• "D.H. Lawrence and His Friends" (1958) Review of The Selected Letters of D.H. Lawrence
• "Truth and Fiction" (1958) Review of the film "A Novel Affair"
• "The Dispossessed" (1958) Review of the film "The Brothers Karamazov"
• "The Hollywood Tragedy, a la Chayefsky" (1958) Review of the film "The Goddess"
• "Culture and Anarchy" (1958) Review of The Cultured Man by Ashley Montagu
• "Capote, Mailer and Miss Parker" (1959) Review of an episode of "Open End" featuring Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Dorothy Parker
• "A Defense of Shyness" (1959) Review of The Blush by Elizabeth Taylor
• "Oracles for Teenagers" (1959) Review of 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty by Pat Boone, Your Happiest Years by Dick Clark, and Dear Teenager by Abigail Van Buren