The question haunting Joan Didion's 'Notes to John' is whether such a private person would have wanted her intimate, unedited ...

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

Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having ...

Readers can decide when “Notes to John,” which shows the writer grappling with guilt and vulnerability, is published next ...

Well, it looks as if it’s time once again for my more or less annual piece about Joan Didion. I didn’t set out to make this a yearly tradition. Way back in 2007, I wrote what I thought was a pretty ...

It seems unlikely that Notes to John, a new and posthumous work by Joan Didion, was originally intended as a ‘book’. Next to her other titles, it lacks the cohesion and ambition, the form and poetry ...

Above is a family portrait, taken by the photojournalist John Bryson in 1976. It shows Joan Didion, her husband John Gregory ...

Drawn from her previously unpublished reflections on sessions with a therapist, “Notes to John” is at once slightly sordid ...

Joan Didion was famously precise in what she wrote and how she wrote it. The late, great, literary icon – author of such culture-defining collections as Slouching to Bethlehem and The White Album – ...

Didion's book is an intimate chronicle of the author's struggle to help her daughter, even if it meant digging into her own ...

"Notes to John" is an intimate collection of journal writings from Joan Didion. Listen to an audio clip of the book narrated ...