News Alert: Author Joan Didion has died at 87. Her novels and essays explored the agitated, fractured state of the nation’s psyche.
| With an unwavering eye and piercing intellect, Didion revealed an America gripped by moral decadence and self-deception, in thrall to false narratives that offered little explanation about how the world worked. She died Thursday at her home in New York City, of complications from Parkinson's disease. |
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| | | | News Alert | Dec. 23, 12:19 p.m. EST | | | | | With an unwavering eye and piercing intellect, Didion revealed an America gripped by moral decadence and self-deception, in thrall to false narratives that offered little explanation about how the world worked. She died Thursday at her home in New York City, of complications from Parkinson's disease. | | | | | |
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