Content warning: mentions of suicide. Joan Didion’s author portrait hangs above my bed like an icon of a patron saint, looking over me while I sleep. A new-ish picture of an older her, this likeness ...

103. When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, ...

As a longtime fan of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, I was enthralled by Lili Anolik’s 2024 book “Didion and Babitz.” As a journalist and feminist, however, I was appalled. Like so many young women in ...

In late July 1970, at the beginning of the murder trial of Charles Manson and three young women in his Family, a 21-year-old named Linda Kasabian took the stand. Kasabian had recently given birth to ...

It’s a bit awkward to give a “best of” accolade to a book when you’re not entirely sure it should exist. There were only a few months between the announcement that a folder of journal entries had been ...

“Most of us have a Joan Didion origin story, the article or book, or photograph or quote that first made us want to know more about this quiet oracle,” Evelyn McDonell begins. She mentions one of an ...

Gemma Nisbet has previously received funding from the Australian Government Research Training Program. Joan Didion died, aged 87, in 2021. When a new volume of her diaries was announced, anticipation ...

Reading Joan Didion’s posthumous, epistolary release “Notes to John” is like cracking open a box of forbidden family heirlooms — precious jewels and relentless rubies of ruin, visible to the human eye ...

Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into a book after her ...

Reading "Notes to John", Joan Didion's posthumously published book of post-therapy jottings, left me "feeling a little grubby at being privy to such an intrusion", said Catherine Jarvie in The i Paper ...

Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into ...

Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into ...