Joan Didion’s Crystal-Clear Vision Only Got Better with Age
Reading the Library of America's comprehensive anthology, Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s, is like walking out of the rain and into a time warp.
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Did Women Writers Change the 20th Century New York Intellectual Scene?
Michelle Dean's Sharp challenges readers to consider what we gain from reading the lives and works of women writers and how they shaped cultural and socio-political thought in the 20th century and beyond.
The View From There: Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’
Joan Didion went on the road 50 years ago. The trenchant observations in South and West, however fragmentary, are timely.
Joan Didion Bio ‘The Last Love Song’ Is an Example of What We Tell Ourselves When Our Subject Won’t
Tracy Daugherty's well-meaning but misguided biography of Joan Didion is marred by supposition and stylistic mimicking.
‘Lovers At the Chameleon Club’ and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Lou Villars is a French athletic champion -- and a spy for the Nazis.