John Simon: “True grief is not an attitudinizing catalog of self- regarding minutiae. There is a 15-line poem by Theodor Storm, ‘Einer Toten” (‘For a Dead Lady”), that moves me every time I read it. Didion’s 90-minute intermissionless itemization of oh- so-literary epiphanies, as recited and enacted by Vanessa Redgrave, leaves me as stone-cold as the dead.”