rom US journalist Janet Malcolm, who died in 2021 aged 86, comes a posthumous kind of memoir, STILL PICTURES . Through its short reflections on personal photos, it’s a. It’s a testament, thought the , “to those attributes Malcolm most admired (and relied on her journalistic subjects to lack): dignity, discretion, craft and control”. Its subject remains elusive, but there are fascinating moments: finding out she is Jewish, her family’s bribe to get out of Nazi Germany may have included buying an SS officer a racehorse, and speech coach Sam Chwat, who helped her present in a defamation trial.
