After Eve Babitz—the late Los Angeles hedonist, visual artist, and author of 1977’s Slow Days, Fast Company—moved into an assisted living facility in 2021, a box of drafts, diary entries, and, perhaps ...

Few writers of her generation have had the impact on American culture that Joan Didion has had. Since Didion’s death in 2021, a host of writers have sought to reckon with her legacy, including Lili ...

To live in Los Angeles is to live in Joan Didion’s world. On what would have been the writer’s 91st birthday, Didion’s thorny and tangled vision of the city endures. A philosopher, historian, songbird ...