‘Malcolm’s ambition is to displace “good stories” with “true ones”,’ says Leo Robson in the Guardian, praising Janet Malcolm’s latest collection of essays.

‘There’s nothing like watching a master at work,’ says the National, while the Independent says of Forty-One False Starts, ‘You cannot glance across any page without being drawn in by a personal detail, or the flickering-to-life of a new argument.’

Gaby Wood of the Telegraph meets Janet Malcolm and finds that she ‘know[s] her differently now’. The TLS considers this new collection in the context of Malcolm’s other work and journalism more generally.

Forty-One False Starts is available in bookshops and online.