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Yeva Yatsyk lost her school in a missile strike. What she didn’t lose: her voice. She wrote a powerful essay from Kharkiv for Scripps News — raw, poetic, and full of hope.
Theoretically, Cog editor Cloe Axelson should be great at keeping a journal. But she has a nagging (if slightly unhinged) ...
My first boyfriend told me with some pride that he'd read Erica Jong's Fear of Flying (1973), and Shere Hite's The Hite ...
As the name suggests, Notes to John contains Joan Didion’s notes for her husband John Gregory Dunne. The writing focuses on ...
If an abyss is where I shall be for the rest of my life’, writes Yiyun Li, ‘the abyss is my habitat.’ Her book is a major ...
John Wayne had many acting credits to his name, but Stagecoach, True Grit, and The Searchers were among the Western masterpieces he starred in.
Quintana Roo Dunne, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, 1976 (John Bryson/Getty Images) What makes “Notes to John” so worth reading — what to me, at least, ...
A few friends have asked what I’ve been reading lately. Here’s my list for June 2025: ...
Notes to JohnJOAN DIDION(4TH ESTATE, 224 PP, £18.99)Tablet bookshop price £17.09 • tel 020 7799 4064. ... Joan Didion’s Notes to John offers a coda to a pioneering writing life.
Hollywood insider secrets. Beyoncé's childhood. Melinda and Bill Gates' divorce. Add these 2025 celebrity memoirs to your beach bag this summer.
Those seeking a job in the federal government will now have to write an essay in support of President Donald Trump's executive orders, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management ...