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Crossword blogCrossword blog: a crossword can be 30 worlds in miniatureI can recommend two books, which have reminded me to slow down and savour my crosswords
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Rejection letters, California dreams and clear reflections on writing in a collection that explores self-doubt
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The US writer’s acerbic crispness is ill-served by a new adaptation of her 90s thriller The Last Thing He Wanted – but other Didion works are just waiting to be streamed…
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2 out of 5 stars.First look reviewThe Last Thing He Wanted review – misfiring Anne Hathaway thrillerMudbound director Dee Rees stumbles with a confused Netflix adaptation of Joan Didion’s political thriller about a conflicted journalist in the 80s
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3 out of 5 stars.
Joan Didion's The White Album review – kaleidoscopic view of the 60s brought to stage
3 out of 5 stars.Eerily beautiful show reveals frustrating fragmentation of writer’s classic essay
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Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000
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From Joan Didion to James Ellroy, novelist and director Wayne Holloway picks his favourite writing about California’s dream factory
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‘Dan Brown writes a limerick that frightens cats’? Or ‘JK Rowling writes a western that delights Belgians’?
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Writers from Joan Didion to James Baldwin complicate the traditionally white and male tales of wide-eyed innocents at large
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In her kitchen at home in Malibu, the writer liked an ice-cold Coke for breakfast – and making salads to feed 40 guests
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Dean’s group biography of female writers who dared speak their mind is a great and worthy project
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Our pop culture expert on the lessons she’s learned from one of America’s greatest living writers
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The bestselling novelist on her favourite actress Justine Mitchell, Margaret Atwood on screen, and a stylish boutique hideaway in Rio
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The master of the personal essay taught us it’s not enough to ask ‘what happened?’ if you neglect ‘how did it feel?’
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Makoto Shinkai’s body-swap anime has a charm likely to elude a forthcoming remake, while a revived Ealing classic lacks kick
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Griffin Dunne talks about his aunt, the subject of a new documentary that charts her rise and the impact her work had on a generation of would-be writers
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These prescient essays from 1970 record the California writer’s reflections as she travelled through America’s ‘gothic’ deep south
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In 1970 the writer spent a month in the south because it seemed to represent the future of America. And now that we are ‘living though the scariest of times’, she has decided to publish her notebooks