Fifth grade was when I first learned the difference between parallel and perpendicular lines. I still remember the worksheet ...

Boyfriends are embarrassing, shopping is undignified – even male gynaecologists are ‘performative’. Why have we become so ...

Legendary singer Joan Baez discusses the essential role of music in movements, the need to keep our eyes on the prize and ...

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

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 ...

It’s been 20 years since writer Joan Didion published “The Year of Magical Thinking,” her intensely personal memoir about her marriage and the sudden death of her husband. And this 2005 interview with ...

“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 ...

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 ...

It’s a bit awkward to give a “best of” accolade to a book when you’re not entirely sure it should exist. There were only a few months between the announcement that a folder of journal entries had been ...

“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 ...

'Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves' by Sophie Gilbert From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered ...