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Joan Didion for sale: the auction of the author's belongings reveals the grand fiction of her image

There are few writers as visually distinctive as Joan Didion. We have glimpses of her as a young reporter with her delicately poised silk scarf and anorak. A decade later we see her on the porch of her Malibu home, casting an ironic glance at her partner and daughter in…

The Conversation · Nov 16, 2022

Writer Joan Didion's possessions sell for eye-popping prices at auction

The late author Joan Didion was an exemplar of the New Journalism of the 1960s. Many fans traveled to Hudson, N.Y., to see some of her possessions up for auction. A pair of sunglass fetched $27,000.

WEKU · Nov 16, 2022

Digested week: Murdoch’s dumping will give Trump the hump

Ex-US president tries to reclaim the unhinged ‘stable genius’ as a joke – and a small part of me thinks good luck to him

The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2022

The Secret History turns 30: the enduring cult appeal of Donna Tartt’s campus novel

Why has no one made ‘The Secret History’ into a film? And does Donna Tartt really take her pet pugs everywhere? Three decades since it was published, Katie Rosseinsky looks at the novel’s legacy

The Independent UK · Sep 18, 2022

Betty Gilpin vs "implanted patriarchy"

On "Salon Talks" the "GLOW" star discusses her reassuring memoir "All the Women in My Brain" and mental health

Salon · Sep 17, 2022

Everything in Aaron Judge’s Career Led Him to This Historic Season

After years of work and study, the Yankees’ slugger is a hitting master coming into his own at the right time.

Sports Illustrated · Sep 13, 2022

Belvoir's Tell Me I'm Here looks at the impact of mental illness on the whole family. It is a wrenching and beautiful work

Review: Tell Me I’m Here, directed by Leticia Cáceres, Belvoir.

The Conversation · Aug 26, 2022

California's Drought Is an Infrastructure Problem

California should build infrastructure, not shame water users.

Reason · Aug 5, 2022

‘Whatever the zeitgeist was at the time, he was at the center’: the incredible life of Earl McGrath

The record producer and man of many other cultural hats left behind a treasure trove of rare recordings that are finally seeing the light of day

The Guardian - US · Jul 14, 2022

Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview; Joan Didion: The Last Interview review – crafty to the end

In these revealing late-life chats, the two doyennes of US journalism display all the acuity and intellectual toughness that made them household names

The Guardian - UK · Jul 3, 2022