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 ...

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 ...

At the foot of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a Lehigh Valley R. R. Co. freight train hisses steam for ten minutes and then continues along the shore of the Lehigh River.

“Slouching Toward Bethlehem,” that “we were seeing something important. We were seeing the desperate attempt of a handful of pathetically unequipped children to create a community in a ...

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.

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." ...

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 ...

At this point in the interview, Bennett opens her phone and quotes a mesmerising passage from Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem about not turning your back on where you came from ...

A little less than a year after Joan Didion’s death in 2021, at 87, her devotees glimpsed many of her belongings through an ...