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

It’s been 77 days since my father left Earthside. I could say “died,” but I’d rather not. Souls, after all, are believed to be immortal, and it’s only the physical body that leaves this plane.

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 ...

The Toronto Blue Jays have yet to put the finishing touch on their season. With just nine games remaining in the campaign, they are on the precipice of clinching both a playoff spot and their first ...

⭐ Untapped New York Members at the Fan tier and higher save 50% off tickets! Not a member? Join today. Walk by the Barbizon Hotel, where Joan Didion lived upon first arriving in New York in 1955, like ...

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion wrote in The White Album in the last century. It has become her iconic quote, as well as the title of her collected nonfiction. Didion used ...

“Most of us have a Joan Didion origin story, the article or book, or photograph or quote that first made us want to know more about this quiet oracle,” Evelyn McDonell begins. She mentions one of an ...

JOAN DIDION: (Reading) Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner, and life as you know it ends. The question of self-pity. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Those four short lines, read ...

Well, it looks as if it’s time once again for my more or less annual piece about Joan Didion. I didn’t set out to make this a yearly tradition. Way back in 2007, I wrote what I thought was a pretty ...

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 ...