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Joan Didion
October 3, 2023
Evelyn McDonnell
Joan Didion vs. the Political Insiders
Her precise, thrilling essays on public life do battle with conventional wisdom.
December 27, 2021
Jacob Bacharach
Joan Didion Cast Off the Fictions of American Politics
Few writers examined their own assumptions and misapprehensions as intelligently as Didion.
February 23, 2021
Magazine
Maggie Doherty
How the Barbizon Hotel Defined Women’s Ambition
Grace Kelly, Joan Didion, and Sylvia Plath were all guests. For some women, it was a launch pad. For others, it was a trap.
October 21, 2020
Laura Weiss
Confronting the Deep Roots of Violence in El Salvador
Roberto Lovato’s “Unforgetting” explores the traumatic history of a country torn apart by wars and gangs—and the dangers of not facing the past.
March 6, 2019
Antonia Hitchens
How Eve Babitz Found Home
A new biography evokes the enchanted sprawl and smog of Los Angeles in the 1970s.
December 8, 2017
Magazine
Michelle Dean
The Company She Kept
Elizabeth Hardwick’s argumentative life among the New York Intellectuals
October 27, 2017
Jacob Bacharach
Joan Didion Is the Best Thing About
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
What saves this highly anticipated documentary from being a workmanlike exercise is the cool customer at its heart.
August 16, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Against Instagram
Aubrey Plaza's new comedy 'Ingrid Goes West' sends up the Instagram influencers living a profitable lie.
July 1, 2016
Jeet Heer
Gay Talese and the Problem With New Journalism
The scandal surrounding the venerable journalist's new book illustrates the risk of mixing fact with fiction.
July 21, 2015
Laura Marsh
Complicated Fame
Interest in Joan Didion's personal life—and her personal belongings—has become insatiable.
October 22, 2014
Esther Breger
For $2,500 You Can Now Own Joan Didion’s Sunglasses
August 5, 2013
Jessica Grose
Please, Pinterest, Stop Telling Me How to Repurpose Mason Jars
DIY Culture, homemaking, and the end of expertise
February 18, 2009
Sam Tanenhaus
Conservatism Is Dead
October 1, 2006
The New Republic Staff
A Lack Of Cerebral Activity
May 1, 2006
Rochelle Gurstein
Mourning in America
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