Literary Journalism on Trial: Janet Malcolm, Criminal Character and the Legacy of New Journalism
How literary is literary journalism, and is recognising the inventiveness of nonfictional writing the same as categorising it as fiction?Or to put it otherwise: does fiction always imply a failure to account for the facts, and when does inventiveness become fiction?These are the questions that Janet Malcolm insistently poses in her writing from the late 1970s when
Authors
- Jess Cotton
Publication Details
- Journal
- Critical Quarterly
- Published
- 2026-02-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.70036
- Primary Topic
- Crime and Detective Fiction Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Leverhulme Trust