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Topic: Joan Didion

Author Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, captured in candid moments (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Lauri Gaffin / Frank Edwards)

The final fact-check of Joan Didion

Andi Zeisler
Brain with eyeglasses (Getty Images/Jolygon)

Did we forget how to read critically?

Kate Harding - DAME
Joan Didion (Neville Elder/Corbis via Getty Images)

Joan Didion's timeless political writing

David Masciotra
George Orwell, Joan Didion and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Didion, Orwell and the death of language

John Berthelsen
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Protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. | The Russian Revolution: Peasants plundering the properties of the rural rich (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Democracy vs. fascism: Cool story bro!

Andrew O'Hehir
Author Joan Didion (Neville Elder/Corbis via Getty Images)

Iconic journalist Joan Didion has died

Alison Stine
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Reading list to survive the plague year

Jeannine Hall Gailey
Bruce Springsteen plays "Born in the U.S.A." at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in September 1985. (AP/Lennox McLendon)

American artists on patriotism & despair

David Masciotra
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A literary feud for the ages

Robert Hofler
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Joan Didion vs. mythic America

J.P. O'Malley
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The new battle of Los Angeles

Scott Timberg
Hugh Eakin and Robert Silvers in "The 50 Year Argument" (HBO/Brigitte Lacombe)

The vanishing editor

Laura Miller
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Ronald Reagan (AP/Doug Mills)

Meagan Day - Full Stop
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"I did not want to live in LA"

Matthew Specktor, Bret Easton Ellis

Kelsey Osgood - The American Reader
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Kyle Minor
John Gregory Dunne

Kelsey Osgood - The American Reader
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Daisy Banks - The Browser

Kyle Minor
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Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking"

Andrew O'Hehir
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An interview with Joan Didion

Andrew O'Hehir
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