'The slighter these pieces are, the more remarkable they seem: they're so deft and enigmatic. This is an essential read that reminds us of her magic' - i Paper 'Didion's dogged pursuit of the truth in her writing is more vital than ever in our era of fake news, echo chambers and political turmoil. Perhaps those iconic sunglasses were really X-ray specs' - Independent Reading her now, she does seem prophetic, as manifested, for instance, in her concerns in 1968 about the weaknesses of the "traditional press", whose unspoken attitudes and "quite factitious 'objectivity'" come "between the page and the reader like so much marsh gas". 'The clarity of Didion's vision and the precision with which she sets it down do indeed feel uncanny. 'The peripheral, the specific, the tangible - or, as the writer Hilton Als notes in his foreword, "the Didion gaze", the penetrating prose of a reporter who writes with a scalpel - is by far the most compelling theme in Didion's latest collection of essays' - Vogue
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