In the years since 2021's “Let Me Tell You What I Mean” and the author’s death later that year, to have “a new Joan Didion book” seemed like an impossibility. Not anymore. Didion's literary trustees ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The book, out April 22, compiles Didion’s journal entries about her experience in psychiatry Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial ...

In 2021, shortly after Joan Didion’s death, her literary trustees found 46 journal entries stashed in an unlabeled folder in her desk (per The New York Times). The legendary journalist and ...

The New York Public Library's Joan Didion archive opens March 26. Here's what you'll find inside. A glimpse into the newly opened archive of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne About a year after Joan ...

A revelatory new book is as penetrating and hardboiled about the late Joan Didion as she was about others. The writing icon's acclaimed career was in key part defined by living in, working with and ...

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, ...

It happens maybe once in a writer’s life, if it happens at all: A narrative path is established, and then without warning, it swerves in a new direction that feels like a gift. This is how Lili Anolik ...

Joan Didion leans against her Corvette Stingray, a cigarette perched between her fingers. Her unsparing, unsmiling gaze seems to sear through the lens of photographer Julian Wasser’s camera, and one ...