Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

Janet Malcolm's final book, published in paperback by FSG Picador, is a memoir structured around photographs that serve as entry points into memory, identity, and the nature of self-representation. Malcolm, a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and one of American journalism's most exacting voices, turns her analytical precision inward, examining what photographs reveal and what they conceal about the lives they appear to document.

Winner of numerous awards over a career spanning decades, Malcolm brings the same rigor to her own story that she applied to her subjects in works like The Journalist and the Murderer. Still Pictures is a late-career reckoning, spare, unsentimental, and quietly revelatory, from a writer whose influence on literary nonfiction remains singular.