Let Me Tell You What I MeanTwelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five decade career, the wide ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon, and a reunion of WWII veterans in Las Vegas, and about topics ranging from Nancy Reagan to Robert Mapplethorpe to Martha Stewart. Here

It’s there to help you make relationships – and to break them

the “poverty of experience” was a characteristic of modernity

Rumah Khizanat (2016)

what is their hidden logic and the underlying necessity for them to exist

and UFO sightings

that witnessed how secularism killed its Malay Muslim heritage

Little does Mieczysław realize

a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian

"Language is the most important of all the instruments of civilization

“Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez

Stroke by Stroke is a pairing of two of Henri Michaux’s most suggestive texts

Not only in society at large