On April 22, Knopf Publishing Company released “Notes to John,” a posthumous collection of journal entries Joan Didion wrote after sessions with her psychiatrist. The 224-page work marks the first ...

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. In 1976, Joan Didion was sent by Rolling ...

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 ...

“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 ...

To live in Los Angeles is to live in Joan Didion’s world. On what would have been the writer’s 91st birthday, Didion’s thorny and tangled vision of the city endures. A philosopher, historian, songbird ...

Joan Didion, the sharp-eyed and cool-headed journalist, essayist and novelist who chronicled the social upheavals of the 1960s, the cultural landscape of California and the inner struggles of grief, ...

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 ...

To live in Los Angeles is to live in Joan Didion’s world. On what would have been the writer’s 91st birthday, Didion’s thorny and tangled vision of the city endures. A philosopher, historian, songbird ...