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.

A few friends have asked what I’ve been reading lately. Here’s my list for June 2025: ...

Joan Didion opens her legendary essay collection, The White Album, with “We tell ourselves stories to live.” So what can be made of a writer who lived off telling stories?

Hollywood is — or was, once — famously a destroyer of souls. In her 1964 essay “I Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind,” Joan Didion wrote, “The American motion-picture industry still ...

Joan Didion, Eve Babitz, ... Didion’s feminism essay is indeed politically obtuse (with a few punchy lines), but she didn’t put much faith in social progress generally.

The Joan Didion many people know is constructed from a few artifacts the real writer left behind when she died in 2021.There’s her much-imitated (and sometimes parodied) 1967 essay “Goodbye to ...

Evelyn McDonnell, however, also “completely agree[s] that Didion needed some feminist consciousness raising”, and thinks that “when it comes to being an icon for women Joan Didion can be deeply ...