![]() The questions such a collection of essays demands-for example, why these pieces, and why now?-invite a cynical answer that is then attached, inextricably so, to the thought itself: Because these are the pieces that haven’t been recently collected because these are the pieces that can be sold either to the completist or to the casual reader. But as the reader continues through the essays in this collection, her writing can also take on the feeling of being alone in someone else’s living room: She is going through their homes in search of a secret. ![]() Didion’s sentences have a way of taking a person at face value and seeing the way subtle truths lie under glossy surfaces. ![]() her sense of control over the material and her certainty of its meaning, as though nothing happens without her permission. Her essays show a writer who attempts a close reading of the powerful people and strange circumstances she encounters but then, when understanding proves difficult, draws back to look at them from a great, flat distance. ![]() the impression one gets is that of reading a magazine made up of all ledes and kickers. ![]()
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