Notes to John by Joan Didion (HC) Fitzcarraldo Editions and the lengths we’ll go

and the lengths we’ll go to for those we care for

finding fiction at once a constraint and a space for play

she argues for the abiding appeal of the flickering screen

Laila Lalami’s mesmerizing The Moor’s Account presents us a historical fiction that feels something like a plural totality

Notes to John by Joan Didion (HC) Fitzcarraldo Editions and the lengths we’ll goAn extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had a rough few years. She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne. For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions focused on alcoholism, adoption,