The revered journalist and writer died at her home in New York City. Revered journalist and author Joan Didion died Thursday at her home in New York City due to complications from Parkinson's disease, ...

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 ...

I came late, let me admit it, to the novels of Joan Didion. For too long, I considered them if not an afterthought then an ancillary line of work. Such a perception is hardly uncommon; the essays are ...

In “Didion & Babitz,” author Lili Anolik opens with some advice: “Reader, Don’t be a baby.” It’s an apt warning for readers who might consider themselves Joan Didion and/or Eve Babitz aficionados.

In a 1939 essay, the critic Philip Rahv argued that there have been two main types in American literature: the solemn and semi-clerical, which he associates with Henry James, and the exuberant, ...

In 1987, Joan Didion wrote a series of articles for the New York Review of Books that were then collected into the book “Miami.” The acclaimed journalist captured the “tropical capital” during a ...

I’m sitting here wondering if Joan Didion had a clock radio. Let me back up and explain. In 2019, I wrote a column about an auction of the late author Philip Roth’s effects. I jokingly speculated that ...

NEW YORK — Joan Didion’s precision with words extended even to ones she would never live to hear, such as those used during a small, private service this spring at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine ...

In the 37 years that I knew my grandmother, I could count on one hand the number of times I saw her without her makeup on. Celebrated for her beauty in her teenage years and beyond, my grandma took ...