Remembering Joan Didion

Joan Didion — novelist, essayist, memoirist, consummate stylist, icon of cool — is dead. She was 87.

Joan Didion — novelist, essayist, memoirist, consummate stylist, icon of cool — is dead. She was 87... Parul Sehgal... Megan Garber... Nathan Heller... Emma Cline... Washington Post... more »

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Wittgenstein, who regarded philoso…