Joan Didion
hen Joan Didion died last year, we lost a literary giant and cultural icon. The author of the now classic collections (1968) and (1979), Didion reinvented the long-form essay, infusing it with a searing sense of style and a distinct, probing voice. She also wrote novels, screenplays, and memoirs—and, in a moment when the written word was losing its currency, seemed to leave her mark beyond the literary world, even appearing in a chic