A new Netflix documentary by R.J. Cutler homes in on the highs and lows of the world’s first self-made woman billionaire.

R.J. Cutler's splendid documentary takes us through her rise and fall and rise, a transfixing saga rooted in a meditation on The Meaning of Martha.

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The Joan Didion documentary has been on my Netflix watchlist for two years now. Everytime I go to watch Sex and the City for the fourth time in a row, Didion haunts me. To be clear, I care about women ...

People are hoping she’ll say one they recognize from a Netflix documentary ... staff of The New York Times Book Review. Examining Joan Didion: Since her death, Didion has become a literary ...

Martha Stewart is, in other words, exactly as much of a hardass as you always thought she was. She is exactly the mean ...

Martha Stewart is not big on sharing her feelings. To the millions who greedily gobbled up scuttlebutt about her legendary ...

Lili Anolik, who’s unearthed Eve Babitz and exposed Donna Tartt, now strips the sentiment which has gathered around one of ...

Babitz’s prose stood in stark contrast to that of her friend and contemporary Joan Didion. Didion’s is cool and analytical, like the image she carefully cultivated, turning a skeptic’s gaze ...

JOAN DIDION and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, came to L.A. from New York in the summer of 1964. Both had worked as journalists. (She for Vogue; he for Time.) Both wanted to write books.

We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. In one of the most famous photographs of Joan Didion, she leans against a Corvette Stingray, one arm crossed over her torso ...