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5 days ago

Notes to John by Joan Didion review – an invasion of privacy

There’s a crude fascination in seeing the contents of a literary celebrity’s therapy sessions, but no one comes out of it well

Motherhood is a state of continuous loss that is meant to culminate when …

Notes to John by Joan Didion review – a writer on the couch

There’s a crude fascination in seeing the contents of a literary celebrity’s therapy sessions, but we’re surely invading her privacy

Motherhood is a state of continuous loss that is meant to culminate…

14 days ago

‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

The writer’s previously unpublished notes from her sessions with a psychiatrist offer an incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression and creativity

Last month, the …

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