A new book explores the friendship and rivalry between two very different chroniclers of Sixties and Seventies Los Angeles – ...

Two literary greats, Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, were more complicated than anyone knew. Here, the secret friendship and ...

A twin biography that tells us more about its podcasting and bestselling American author than its celebrated subjects ...

“Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan?” Babitz blazed. “Would you be allowed to if you weren’t physically so unthreatening?” (Didion’s writing is littered with ...

Maggie Smith, the undisputed queen of acting, has revealed her top book recommendations that echo her love for theater. This ...

This dual biography of novelist Joan Didion and artist and 1960s It girl Eve Babitz dredges up hot Hollywood gossip of the highest order.

If your Naomi be Klein, you’re doing just fine. If your Naomi be Wolf, oh buddy, big oof.’ It’s a rhyme that went viral on social media as the two public intellectuals found themselves frequently ...

I was enthralled and appalled. I was saved a lifetime of reading books like that by a neighbor who lent me Joan Didion’s “The ...

If you're looking to stack up your summer reading pile, here's an excellent starting point, with new releases from Rosalie ...