Sarah Watling

Fragments of a life: Janet Malcolm meditates on old family photographs

The biographer and journalist was always reluctant to write about herself, and this posthumously published memoir is hemmed in by what she kept locked away

Grandmother Klara with her two daughters. Janet Malcolm’s mother, Hanna, is on the left. [photograph courtesy of the author]
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  • Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

    Janet Malcolm

    Granta, pp. 176, £14

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