Her personal notes were written in 1999, following therapy sessions. She died in 2021. She had 22 years to decide to release ...

Didion’s appraisal of Martha Stewart, in which most glosses of the subject could also apply to the author, is an ur-text on ...

A couple of years ago, the New York Public Library purchased the late Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne’s archive, announcing that, once processed, the collection would be available to anyone with a ...

It’s almost like mosaic work,” Straughan tells Gilbert Cruz, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, about adapting ...

The White Album” by Joan Didion “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” I have been praying at the altar of Joan Didion ...

Barney Saltzberg’s many picture books for children include “Arlo Needs Glasses,” about his giant goldendoodle who couldn’t ...

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Our first roundup of 2025 features some major releases; given the state of things, we should be very thankful for that. Note ...

“This is the story of a body that splits,” Kate Gies writes in the opening pages of her memoir, "It Must Be Beautiful to Be ...

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Released back in November of 2024, Lili Anolik’s ”Didion and Babitz” made its rounds on Tiktok’s popular hashtag booktok. In ...