Taken from the collection’s titular, autobiographical essay, Didion’s section on The Doors accomplishes an evocative example ...

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold premieres Oct. 27 on Netflix Joan Didion has set an impossible standard for any documentarian who would want to cover her life. She’s essentially already done it ...

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 ...

American essayist and journalist Joan Didion wrote that “we tell ourselves stories in order to live”. These stories are very often untrue, but rooted in human experiences and how we understand events ...

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 ...