We hope as you enjoy your weekend you’ll also find some time to kick back and survey some of the best writing from around the web.

• The Radicalization of Joan Didion, by Louis Menand for The New Yorker.
  • She started out a Goldwater conservative. How did she become a voice of the left?

• The Late, Great Stephen Colbert, by Joel Lovell for GQ
  • Since last winter, after laying to rest the blowhard host of The Colbert Report and inheriting Letterman’s seat on The Late Show, the most inventive comic of his generation has been consumed with one very large question: Who will he be now? Stephen Colbert—the real one—gives a sneak peek. And in revealing his truest self (and boy, does he go deep), he shows us how he might just reinvent late-night, too

• Humor: I’m Not Ill–I Just Have Kids, by Chris Gate, from McSweeney’s.
  • “If we’ve met, you’ve probably categorized me as another unfortunate victim of schizophrenia, severe ADHD, or dementia. (Put that down!) But the truth is (Stop running!) I don’t have an illness. (Where are you?) I have kids. (Let go of my arm!)“

Enjoy your weekend and we’ll see you next week!