Orphaned heiress Maud finds herself ensnared in a psychological game, as she battles her manipulative uncle within her isolated manor, fighting for her inheritance and life against his deadly ...

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion wrote in The White Album in the last century. It has become her iconic quote, as well as the title of her collected nonfiction. Didion used ...

In her 1976 essay, “Why I Write,” Joan Didion described herself as the kind of writer “whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper.” Had she been an ordered ...