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

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 ...

Notes to John, posthumously published journal entries chronicling Didion’s therapy sessions, is a peek into the myths and fears that animated her writing life. Joan Didion, 2007. In 1976, Joan Didion ...

Gemma Nisbet has previously received funding from the Australian Government Research Training Program. Joan Didion died, aged 87, in 2021. When a new volume of her diaries was announced, anticipation ...

Reading Joan Didion’s posthumous, epistolary release “Notes to John” is like cracking open a box of forbidden family heirlooms — precious jewels and relentless rubies of ruin, visible to the human eye ...

Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into a book after her ...

Reading "Notes to John", Joan Didion's posthumously published book of post-therapy jottings, left me "feeling a little grubby at being privy to such an intrusion", said Catherine Jarvie in The i Paper ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joan Didion opens her legendary essay collection, The White Album, with “We tell ourselves stories to live.” So what can be made of a writer who lived off telling stories? To start, a sweeping ...