Reading Janet Malcolm in Yorkville
by Hallel Yadin

Growing up means getting better at keeping your promises to yourself. This belief dawned on me — or, more accurately, I was able to articulate it — around week three of a self-imposed project to read as much Janet Malcolm as possible. Malcolm was a longtime New Yorker staffer who took a “piercingly analytical” approach to her writing, and her body of work is rich with profiles on subjects oblivious to their own motivations.