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20 New Books to Read in April: Joan Didion, Emily Henry, Tina Knowles and more

20 New Books to Read in April: Joan Didion, Emily Henry, Tina Knowles and more

by David Szalay Szalay’s new novel traces the life of a young man in Hungary who eventually makes his way to England, following him from troubled...

For Joan Didion, Mementos of Her Daughter’s Childhood Became Material

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For Joan Didion, Mementos of Her Daughter’s Childhood Became Material

An arrangement of dried flowers pressed between sheets of plastic, the name “Quintana” written in a child’s neat lettering at the top. A yellow Post-it with...

Book Review: ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ by Alissa Wilkinson

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Book Review: ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ by Alissa Wilkinson

WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine, by Alissa Wilkinson We go on needing Joan Didion. The aloof gaze; the Scotch and...

Joan Didion Knew the Stories We’d Tell About the Manson Murders

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Joan Didion Knew the Stories We’d Tell About the Manson Murders

OUTSIDE of its famous first line — “we tell ourselves stories in order to live” — “The White Album” is most often cited in retellings of...

25 Years Ago, Joan Didion Kept a Diary. It’s About to Become Public.

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25 Years Ago, Joan Didion Kept a Diary. It’s About to Become Public.

In December 1999, around her 65th birthday, Joan Didion started writing a journal after sessions with her psychiatrist. Over the next year or so, she kept...