Joan Didion
Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction.
From the Review
December 18, 2008: Obama: In the Irony-Free Zone
November 6, 2008: A Fateful Election
February 14, 2008: On Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)
November 2, 2006: In Cheney's Shadow (letter)
October 5, 2006: Cheney: The Fatal Touch
A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs by Theodore Draper
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke
Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence by Admiral Stansfield Turner
Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind
The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Most Powerful Vice President in American History by John Nichols
Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, with Supplemental, Minority, and Additional Views
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror by Mark Danner
Years of Renewal by Henry Kissinger
Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean
31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today by Barry Werth
Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet by James Mann
Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward
Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life by Mary Cheney
My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope by L. Paul Bremer III, with Malcolm McConnell
The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money by Dan Briody
August 11, 2005: The Terri Schiavo Case: An Exchange
June 9, 2005: The Case of Theresa Schiavo
October 21, 2004: Politics in the 'New Normal' America
November 6, 2003: Mr. Bush & the Divine
Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages by Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
January 16, 2003: Fixed Opinions, or The Hinge of History
March 29, 2001: Praying in Public (letter)
December 21, 2000: An Open Letter to the President (letter)
November 2, 2000: God's Country
November 4, 1999: 'The Day Was Hot and Still…'
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris
June 24, 1999: Uncovered Washington
Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story by Michael Isikoff
Active Faith: How ChristiansAre Changing the Soul of American Politics by Ralph Reed
Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline by Robert H. Bork
October 22, 1998: Clinton Agonistes
Referral to the United States House of Representatives pursuant to Title 28, United States Code, §595(c) Submitted by the Office of the Independent Counsel
October 8, 1998: Irrational Numbers (letter)
April 23, 1998: Varieties of Madness
The Unabomber Manifesto "FC."
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
Drawing Life by David Gelernter
March 5, 1998: 'The Lion King': An Exchange
December 18, 1997: The Lion King
Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader by Dinesh D'Souza
September 19, 1996: The Deferential Spirit
The Choice by Bob Woodward
The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House by Bob Woodward
The Commanders by Bob Woodward
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward
Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi by Bob Woodward
The Brethren by Bob Woodward, by Scott Armstrong
August 10, 1995: The Teachings of Speaker Gingrich
1945 by Newt Gingrich, by William R. Forstchen
To Renew America by Newt Gingrich
July 14, 1994: 'Something Horrible' in El Salvador
The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War by Mark Danner
October 21, 1993: The Golden Land
The California Water Atlas edited by William L. Kahrl
Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850–1986 by Robert Kelley
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff
A Companion to California by James D. Hart
The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland by Stephen Johnson, by Robert Dawson, text by Gerald Haslam
Papers in Honor of Josiah Royce on His Sixtieth Birthday
California, From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco: A Study in American Character by Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard (1992) by Robert V. Hine
Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915 by Kevin Starr
California: The Great Exception by Carey McWilliams
The Octopus by Frank Norris
The Ranch Papers: A California Memoir by Jane Hollister Wheelwright
Politics of Land: Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Land Use in California
Up & Down California, 1860–1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer edited by Francis P. Farquhar
The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness by G. William Domhoff
The Greatest Men's Party on Earth: Inside the Bohemian Grove by John van der Zee
Impact of Defense Cuts on California prepared by the Commission on State Finance
September 24, 1992: Eye on the Prize
March 7, 1991: 'Sentimental Journeys' (letter)
January 17, 1991: New York: Sentimental Journeys
December 21, 1989: Life at Court
What I Saw At the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era Magazine on October 12) by Peggy Noonan
Jean Howard's Hollywood: A Photo Memoir photographs by Jean Howard, text by James Watters
My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan by Nancy Reagan, with William Novak
At Reagan's Side by Helene von Damm
Behind the Scenes by Michael K. Deaver, with Mickey Herskowitz
Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches by Ronald Reagan
December 22, 1988: The Election and the Future: A Symposium
October 27, 1988: Insider Baseball
October 22, 1987: Outreaching (letter)
July 16, 1987: Washington in Miami
June 25, 1987: Miami: Exiles
June 11, 1987: Miami: 'La Lucha'
May 28, 1987: Miami
October 11, 1984: Discovery
Finding the Center: Two Narratives by V.S. Naipaul
Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement by Graham Greene
December 2, 1982: El Salvador: Illusions
November 18, 1982: In El Salvador: Soluciones
November 4, 1982: In El Salvador
March 18, 1982: Sentimental Education
Every Secret Thing by Patricia Campbell Hearst, with Alvin Moscow
June 12, 1980: Without Regret or Hope
The Return of Eva Perón with The Killings in Trinidad by V.S. Naipaul
October 11, 1979: They'll Take Manhattan (letter)
August 16, 1979: Letter from 'Manhattan'
Manhattan directed by Woody Allen
Interiors directed by Woody Allen
Annie Hall directed by Woody Allen
April 19, 1973: Hollywood (letter)
April 19, 1973: Hollywood (letter)
March 22, 1973: Hollywood: Having Fun
Memo from David O. Selznick selected and edited by Rudy Behlmer
Figures of Light: Film Criticism and Comment by Stanley Kauffmann
From New York Review Books
 | Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 Joan Didion describes how, since September 11, 2001, there has been a determined effort by the administration to promote an imperial America—a "New Unilateralism"—and how, in many parts of America, there is now a "disconnect" between the government and citizens. |
 | Seduction and Betrayal Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life. |
Books by Joan Didion
Political Fictions (2001)
The Last Thing He Wanted (1996)
After Henry (1992)
Miami (1987)
Democracy: A Novel (1984)
Salvador (1983)
The White Album (1979)
A Book of Common Prayer (1977)
Play It as It Lays (1970)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
Run River (1963)