Iphigenia in Forest Hills

Janet Malcolm dissects the Queens trial of Mazoltuv Borukhova, a physician convicted of hiring a hitman to kill her estranged husband amid a bitter child-custody battle. With characteristic precision, Malcolm interrogates narrative, the limits of courtroom certainty and the slippery, often unanswerable nature of truth in adversarial legal proceedings.

ISBN 9780300167467 · Yale University Press · 2011