...Christopher P. Wilson This essay examines three twentieth-century practitioners of the Los Angeles variant of Noir nonfiction: the radical historian and architectural critic Mike Davis; the fiction writer, screenwriter, and journalist Joan Didion; and the novelist, reporter, and memoirist John...

... as “repeat[ing] the mistakes made by white supremacist thinking” (108). The second movement in Cohen’s argument, which occurs in chap- ters 4 and 5, explores the impulse to closure and the importance of open- ness in four novels: Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods, Joan Didion’s The Last...

... and the Myth of the National Security State” provides the focus of Belletto’s fifth chapter, in which he dem- onstrates how American artists such as Philip K. Dick, Stanley Kubrick, and Joan Didion criticize the game theory developed to deal with the threats of the Cold War. Initially formulated...

... did she find there? Happiness, consolation? No, she found, with her ineluctable ill-luck, a nightmare of betrayals, lies, de­ ceits, shocks, infidelities, dismissals. (19) This is the sole example of female same-sex desire that I have found in Hardwick’s corpus, about which Joan Didion...

...: Doubleday, 1975. 74-87. Stout, Janis. P. Strategies of Reticence: Silence and Meaning in the Works ofJane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1990. Tropp, Martin. Images of Fear: How Horror Stories Helped Shape Modem Culture...