The Diary Review

‘Glenn my Landlord comes to tell me that he will have his two daughters painted in Oil, the Girls so preferring, and I am to do them at $25 ...

Happy 70th birthday Pedro Almodóvar. He is surely the most famous of Spanish filmmakers alive today, and second only to Luis Buñuel in impor...

‘The war is coming nearer and nearer to us and it makes one think all the more. We are living in a new phase of history the course of which ...

Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana, was born 110 years ago today. He led the British colony of Gold Coast to independence and overs...

‘A living person always has hope (sometimes unconsciously). Although life is difficult, it is also beautiful. Life has its strange charm. (I...

Italy’s ‘City of Diaries’ - Atlas Obscura (see also Italy’s Town of the Diary ) Taylor Swift’s diaries - USA Today , Mail Online Kafka’...

Happy birthday Jack Ward Thomas - 85 today. A wildlife research biologist, conservationist and professor, Thomas rose to the giddy political...

‘I have taken a resolution to write down in this book, as in times of leisure I may have opportunity, things past, or things that may occur ...

Alma Mahler-Werfel, the Austrian musician and wife/lover of several celebrated artistic figures, was born 140 years ago today. She was a sig...