Didion’s “first collection of nonfiction writing, ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem,’ brings together some of the finest magazine pieces published by anyone in this country in recent years ...

Pieces like Joan Didion’s “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” (1968) painted an amusing but disturbing picture of the hip scene in ...

But Roberts' ultimate favorite? Her signed copy of Didion's 1968 collection of essays, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," gifted on her 30th birthday. "It is one of my most prized possessions." ...

I love Joan Didion and her bulletproof style, its sheen, but rereading “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” a while back made me rethink my long-held belief that Didion is neutral and a sensitive ...

By Héctor Tobar Joan Didion’s “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and Robert Mickey’s “Paths Out of Dixie” help our columnist understand American democracy’s new crisis of authoritarianism.

Her approach to spying mirrors the approach to reporting that Joan Didion describes in Slouching Towards Bethlehem: of making herself so “unobtrusive” that her subjects “forget that my ...

The incisive US novelist and essayist examined the fragmentation of US life in books like 1968's Slouching Towards Bethlehem and 1979's The White Album. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Year of ...

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It reminded people of summer, and Wimbledon. It pointed forward toward the new year. It was an enormous success. In some ways, the YEC had more credibility then. Instead of featuring exhausted ...