SOURCE: "Taking Sides in Polemics Over Plath," in The New York Times, April 5, 1994, pp. C13, C17.
[In the following review of The Silent Woman, Kakutani outlines the longstanding libel case against Malcolm for her previous book, The Journalist and the Murderer (1990), and its relevance to Malcolm's biography of Plath.]
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