diaries

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"In his high school diaries, we keep seeing the same line over and over again: 'I didn't go to school today,'" he said with a smile.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

Traces of Guler's lifelong devotion to cinema can even be found in his teenage diaries from the late 1940s and 1950s, according to Temel Yilmaz, conservator and archive researcher.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

The sources for the film—which we watch being laid out in a very precise, geometric, Ozu-inspired place setting—are the small diaries the director kept throughout his life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

The most moving passages in the diaries chronicle her life during the 900-day German siege of Leningrad, which subjected those who remained in the city to the evils of both totalitarianisms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Union soldiers hacked pianos, tore apart featherbeds, rifled through drawers and diaries.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock