http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/janet-malcolm Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:39:37 -0400 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:39:37 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/25/janet-malcolm-and-norman-mailer-navigating-author-narrator-and-subject By Leslie S. Lee - Janet Malcolm opens her book, The Journalist and the Murderer,[1] with a stringent criticism of journalistic practice: "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse." (3) Malcolm focuses on what she views as the inherent imbalance in the relationship between the subject of a piece of nonfiction and the writer. Malcolm argues that the subject-writer relationship... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:10 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/25/janet-malcolm-and-norman-mailer-navigating-author-narrator-and-subject