The most charming moments in Janet Malcolm’s new memoir are when the incisive, unsparing adult can be found in the child
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskWith “Still Pictures”, Malcolm has published a kind of posthumous memoir . Given her critique of the biases inherent in storytelling, and her insights into the ways individuals use stories to obscure what is unknown and unknowable about the self, however could she indulge in that most warped and self-serving genre of them all?
As a memoirist, Malcolm comes clean about her gaps in memory and her lapses in judgment, and she has characteristically strong feelings about what is moral and appropriate. In writing about her father, for example, Malcolm explains that she is sticking to “lovely plotless memories” about him, as the memories with a plot are invariably those of “conflict, resentment, blame, self-justification—and it is wrong, unfair, inexcusable to publish them.
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