This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, author and film critic Alissa Wilkinson joins us to talk about Joan Didion, Hollywood, ...

Things in Nature Merely Grow’ is an essay as much as it is a memoir. An essay on what death can mean, and does mean, and ...

The cover image of Notes to John, a photograph by Annie Leibovitz, captures Joan Didion seated in an office, gazing up ...

Notes to John, posthumously published journal entries chronicling Didion’s therapy sessions, is a peek into the myths and ...

Yeva Yatsyk lost her school in a missile strike. What she didn’t lose: her voice. She wrote a powerful essay from Kharkiv for ...

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 Report (1976). Though they ha ...

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 contribution to literature on mourning.

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? To start, a sweeping ...

Reading Notes to John, a new and much-discussed posthumous selection of Joan Didion’s writing, I thought over and over of ...

We Tell Ourselves Stories,” by Alissa Wilkinson, looks at how Didion both shaped and was shaped by the movies.