Joan Didion

Saint Joan and saucy Eve: a single woman split in two

9 November 2024 9:00 am

The relationship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz is memorably captured in Lily Anolik’s red-hot, propulsive portrait of two warring writers who were once close friends

Joan Didion deserves better

23 September 2023 9:00 am

The great American writer is ill-served by this new biography – but luckily we still have her own writing to tell us who she truly was

The joylessness of Joan Didion

5 February 2022 9:00 am

Gstaad   Joan Didion, who died last December, took herself extremely seriously. American writers tend to do that, especially those…

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Bright lights, abandoned city

26 June 2020 6:20 am

Joan Didion wrote that New York is a city only for the very rich, the very poor and the very…

Why Harvey, Dustin and Brett did it

11 November 2017 9:00 am

A dinner in honour of Arki Busson hosted by Michael Mailer in his brilliant Brooklyn flat on the banks of…