Bookish Diversions: Not Done with Didion

Psychiatry Notes, Ethics of Posthumous Publishing, Among the Archive, More

Joan Didion died in 2021, but we’re still not done with her. In the last few years publishers have given us biography, memoir, and critical studies about various aspects of her life. Most recently, we’ve been treated to her therapy notes.

“With each year, Didion becomes more enshrined as a literary Sibyl,” says James Wolcott, “her chic, dead-ahead stare …