White Album (FSG Classics)First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the eraincluding Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mallthrough the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text

all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate

virtuosically satirical

Museum of Modern Art

These myths are an assortment of narratives

The Dark Forest

create a miniature Venice

Each image is a step into a long shuttered world of strange wonders and long forgotten oddities

he may have met his match on the reprehensibility scale

And it was just the beginning

and of the meteoric ascendancy of a hybrid society are the stuff of Expats "a book that penetrates what Lawrence called "the glamour of strangeness

In a moment where women’s rights are being rolled back

Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor