Joan Didion turned her childhood awareness of Hearst Castle, in coastal San Simeon, into a shimmering string of words and ideas. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times) “You know, sometimes I think I can’t ...

In any year, pandemic or not, a new book by Joan Didion is a cause for exclamations of joy. In “Let Me Tell You What I Mean,” Didion, at 86 the author of five respected novels and a dozen even more ...

LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I MEAN. By Joan Didion. Knopf. 149 pages. $23. Joan Didion, who is now 86, has not written a completely new book since “Blue Nights” in 2011. The essays collected in “Let Me Tell ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Back in 1968, Joan Didion identified a problem with the mainstream media. “The only American newspapers that do not leave me in the grip of a profound physical conviction that the oxygen has been cut ...

Joan Didion, who is 86, has been published for more than 50 years. Of the 17 books she has written, a few have been fiction, (“Play It as It Lays,” “A Book of Common Prayer,”) but most have been ...

The tide of “New Journalism” that flooded the late 1960s and ’70s may have been dominated by the exclamation marks, manic italics and machismo of Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, or Hunter S. Thompson, but ...

Joan Didion was rightly hailed as a great writer and chronicler of California upon her passing Dec. 23 at age 87. Some in the Inland Empire still bear a grudge, however. Including on Bella Vista Drive ...

Joan Didion has died at the age of 87, her publisher has confirmed. The legendary essayist, novelist and screenwriter — who had long been revered as one of America’s pre-eminent writers — passed away ...

This cover image released by Alfred A. Knopf shows "Let Me Tell You What I Mean" by Joan Didion. (Alfred A. Knopf via AP) “Let Me Tell You What I Mean,” by Joan Didion (Alfred A. Knopf) Back in 1968, ...