The Diary Review

‘I have just finished my modest airline nosh when Ali plops down beside me. He has short sleeves and his enormous bicep rests near mine with...

‘We have been two months a half married & never been away from each other for half an hour. I used to think I could not be happy unless ...

‘[Lloyd George] returned from his interview with Hitler in great form, very delighted with his talk and obviously very much struck with Hitl...

Today marks the 150th anniversary of André Gide’s birth. A Nobel Prize winner, and one of France’s great writers, Gide was also an avid diar...

‘The scene before us was full of life and animation. Down at our feet a very Babel was at work - men loading the animals from the deep pits ...

Pehr Kalm, a Swedish-Finnish explorer and botanist, died 140 years ago today. He’s best known for being one of Carolus Linnaeus’s students, ...

Chiang Ching-kuo’s diaries to be published - Taiwan News Channon’s diaries to be published in full - The Bookseller , The Guardian Highs...

‘Yesterday arrived, the Continental Schooner Wasp, Captain Baldwin; brought with her a large Guinea ship bound from Jamaica for Liverpool, h...

Korney Chukovsky, one of Russia’s most popular writers for children, died 50 years ago today. He was also an influential literary critic and...

Jack Kerouac, author of one of America’s most celebrated novels, On the Road , died 50 years ago today. He is remembered particularly for th...