We are always telling ourselves — or being told — stories. Stories projected from bright and booming big screens; stories on pages pressed with ink; stories in the corners of our minds, those places ...

Hollywood is — or was, once — famously a destroyer of souls. In her 1964 essay “I Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind,” Joan Didion wrote, “The American motion-picture industry still represents a ...

In her new book, We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine (out March 11 from Liveright), film critic Alissa Wilkinson floats an idea: To truly understand Didion, one must ...

Since her death, Didion has become a literary subject as popular for her image and writing as for the fascination she inspired for almost half a century. By Casey Schwartz It’s still bright afternoon ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Knopf publisher Jordan Pavlin and Shelley Wanger, Joan Didion's longtime editor and one of her literary trustees, about the new book "Notes to John." JOAN DIDION: ...

Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays that are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start. Credit...John Bryson/Getty ...