Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial by Malcolm, Janet
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial by Malcolm, Janet

Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial

Prizewinning journalist Janet Malcolm discovers the elements of Greek tragedy in a sensational New York City murder...
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Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial by Malcolm, Janet

Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial

$39.27
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial by Malcolm, Janet

Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial

$39.27
Author: Janet Malcolm
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Prizewinning journalist Janet Malcolm discovers the elements of Greek tragedy in a sensational New York City murder trial

"Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell -- the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm's admirers (and I am one) have become addicted."--Dwight Garner, New York Times

"This is shrewd and quirky crime reporting at its irresistible and disabused best."--Louis Begley, Wall Street Journal

"She couldn't have done it and she must have done it." This is the enigma at the heart of Janet Malcolm's riveting book about a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention. The defendant, Mazoltuv Borukhova, a beautiful young physician, is accused of hiring an assassin to kill her estranged husband, Daniel Malakov, a respected orthodontist, in the presence of their four-year old child. The prosecutor calls it an act of vengeance: just weeks before Malakov was killed in cold blood, he was given custody of Michelle for inexplicable reasons. It is the "Dickensian ordeal" of Borukhova's innocent child that drives Malcolm's inquiry.

With the intellectual and emotional precision for which she is known, Malcolm looks at the trial--"a contest between competing narratives"--from every conceivable angle. It is the chasm between our ideals of justice and the human factors that influence every trial--from divergent lawyering abilities to the nature of jury selection, the malleability of evidence, and the disposition of the judge--that is perhaps most striking.

Surely one of the most keenly observed trial books ever written, Iphigenia in Forest Hills is ultimately about character and "reasonable doubt." As Jeffrey Rosen writes, it is "as suspenseful and exciting as a detective story, with all the moral and intellectual interest of a great novel."

"Iphigenia in Forest Hills is another dazzling triumph from Janet Malcolm. Here, as always, Malcolm's work inspires the best kind of disquiet in a reader--the obligation to think." --Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

"A remarkable achievement that ranks with Malcolm's greatest books. Her scrupulous reporting and interviews with protagonists on both sides of the trial make her own narrative as suspenseful and exciting as a detective story, with all the moral and intellectual interest of a great novel." --Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America



Author: Janet Malcolm
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 11/20/2012
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780300181708


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/16/2012 pg. 32

About the Author
Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) was the author of Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, which won the PEN Biography Award, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Reading Chekhov, Burdock, and other books. Malcolm wrote frequently for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.
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