diaries

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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

"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

A documentary on TCM draws on the Japanese director’s diaries to offer an intimate portrait of a modest yet artistically monumental filmmaker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Mendes-Flohr builds his portrait from intimate materials: Rosenzweig’s diaries; interviews with Rosenzweig’s son, Rafael, and some surviving members of Rosenzweig’s circle; and, most striking, more than 1,000 letters Rosenzweig wrote to Margrit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Years after, in college, I remember reading the diaries of seventeenth-century Puritans.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez