A selective list of literary criticism and lighter reading for American novelist and essayist Joan Didion, including signed articles by recognized scholars, peer and editor reviewed articles, and web sites that follow MLA guidelines for web pages.
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Comer, Krista. An introduction to Joan Didion from the Literary Encyclopedia, 24 January 2002
Direnç, Dilek. A study of language and style in Didion's essay "On Going Home," "Didion’s 'On Going Home': The Rhetoric of Fragmentation," Journal of American Studies of Turkey 6 (1997)
Eggers, Dave. A Salon.com interview with Joan Didion, by Dave Eggers, in October 1996
A Salon.com review of Political Fictions, by Charles Taylor, 10/24/01
A review of Political Fictions in the Washington Post, by Jonathan Schell, 10/23/01; Another review in the New York Observer, by Susan Faludi, 9/17/01; Another review in the New York Review of Books, by Joseph Lelyveld, 12/20/01
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