Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ - The New York Times
Michiko Kakutani
In two dazzling collections of essays, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and “The White Album,” Joan Didion used her own experiences — and observations and anxieties — as a kind of index to the times, as America lurched through the convulsions of the 1960s and ’70s.
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