The White Album” by Joan Didion “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” I have been praying at the altar of Joan Didion ...

While many of her contemporaries are playing canasta, she’s releasing her 25th book. There’s no mystery to it, Tyler says: ...

The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.

The book also contains anecdotes about the death of her partner and revelations about her mother, a gifted painter who ...