Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Let Me Tell You What I MeanTwelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five decade career, the wide ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon, and a reunion of WWII veterans in Las Vegas, and about topics ranging from Nancy Reagan to Robert Mapplethorpe to Martha Stewart. Here

Things are looking up – but as Corey soon finds

a violation of nature

prompting disputes between theologians and early economists over the causes of inflation in the sixteenth century

ABOUT THE MYTH OF MAKING IT

hidden cities

Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection is an opportunity for readers to gain access and appreciation of a unique genre of spiritual Islamic poetry

including the relationship between religion and socialism

Corey Fah’s pursuit of the elusive prize – and an escape from precarity – is a whirlwind

Few things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Prophet Muhammad

his contributions to the Rukunegara

unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry

these poems reach for a sense of place—Ipoh