How the actress-turned-author mined her wildly bohemian upbringing in Greenwich Village to pen a page-turning collection of personal essays.

In her debut graphic memoir, “This Beautiful, Ridiculous City,” Kay Sohini examines the lasting appeal of the Big Apple.

Didion & Babitz” dodges bringing its subjects to its forefront in favor of second-hand gossip and questionable journalistic ...

Highlighting their unique styles and influences, the book lays bare their starkly contrasting personas and yet similarly ...

Despite being aware of the immensity of our world and knowing that there are other people doing the same thing, you can’t ...

Miranda’s reflection on what to read as wildfires burn in her hometown of Los Angeles. Can any writer, Miranda wonders, offer ...

As fires have raged, so have citations of the prescient author Mike Davis. But in a changed world, we need new thinkers too.

From millennial reflections on divorce to must-read memoirs from the likes of Graydon Carter, Brooke Shields and Ms. Tina ...

"Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse," Joan Didion, a native California writer, said in her 1968 ...

Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

Didion always fancied herself a prophet, I think – no one titles a collection of essays “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” without at least one eye on the horizon – and when her visions of the ...

Joan Didion There’s always been a black hole in ... I think — no one titles a collection of essays “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” without at least one eye on the horizon — and when ...