Recently, in a bar, I was reading “In Gratitude,” by the British writer Jenny Diski, when a loud guy with tall hair asked me what it was. I stumbled a little before saying, “It’s a cancer memoir.” I ...

The Vanishing Princess finds Diski in reflective mode. The first story is about the eponymous princess, but its subtitle—“Or, The Origin of Cubism”—suggests something more than a modern fairytale.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by Bloomsbury shows "Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told" by Jenny Diski. (Bloomsbury via AP) A ...

To my mind, the quintessential Jenny Diski moment comes in her essay “Rape-rape,” published November 2009 in the London Review of Books. Considering the director Roman Polanski’s statutory rape of a ...

The late Jenny Diski’s memoir reflects on mortality and her complicated relationship with Doris Lessing with equal candour I had just finished this remarkable book and this review, when I heard of ...

No subject was taboo for famously candid English author Jenny Diski, who died in April at the age of 68. Over the course of her career, she wrote frankly on the topics of, as she put it, "sex, drugs ...