Sarah Jessica Parker’s leap from Carrie Bradshaw to Booker judge raises the question whether celebrities really decide the ...

In her SoHo loft, Joan Jonas hosted a dinner celebrating the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ turn to public programming ...

It’s a beautiful, sunny day and you’re cruising down the highway with the top down, taking directions from your phone’s ...

A meditation on the death of a beloved grandparent and a partner in the space of a single weekend that is also an ode to Delhi ...

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 ...

During Mercury retrograde, when clarity, solid intellect, and good communication tend to go out the window, our innate ability to mislead ourselves gets an extra boost. However, the following five ...

In her book, ‘The Rest Is Silence,’ Joanna Stalnaker offers an intimate portrait of Enlightenment philosophers as they faced ...

Joan Didion’s spirit child in the making. A Calcutta native based in Hyderabad with an affinity for anything and everything that screams “culture” ...

Justice Anthony Kennedy talks about his Sacramento childhood and his role as a “swing vote” in landmark cases in interview and new memoir.

In Dead and Alive, her prose, which once animated fictional worlds in White Teeth and Swing Time, now turns its sharp ...

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 ...

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 ...