Reading Chekhov

JANET MALCOLM’S previous books are Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography; Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession; In the Freud Archives; The Journalist and the Murderer; The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings; The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; and The Crime of Sheila McGough. Born in Prague, she grew up in New York, where she lives with her husband, Gardner Botsford.