Few writers of her generation have had the impact on American culture that Joan Didion has had. Since Didion’s death in 2021, ...

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The struggle of Latin American women is more urgent than ever in the face of setbacks across the continent. These eight women are at the forefront of the resistance: defending their threatened rights ...

If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other. In many of the essays that were collected in the ...

Harper Lee, who was famous until the year before her death for having published only one novel – albeit a novel that became one of the most influential books in history – has another book ...

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