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 ...

Joan Didion leans against her Corvette Stingray, a cigarette perched between her fingers. Her unsparing, unsmiling gaze seems to sear through the lens of photographer Julian Wasser’s camera, ...

“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 ...