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Recent Examples of diariesLiterary Agency, Germany The debut novel explores family grief and trauma, generational friction, and memory through a narrative puzzle emerging from diaries and testimonies.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Sep. 2026 The film, which premiered at Visions du Réel, journeys into the past through the director’s diaries and family photographs.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2026 In the diaries, Pavese casts his impotence into a kind of worldview.—
Max Norman,
Harpers Magazine,
22 Sep. 2026 The diaries of the novelist Andrey Kurkov (collected into three volumes thus far) provide a rich chronicle of Ukrainians’ evolving responses to their extraordinary circumstances.—
Nick Holdstock,
The Dial,
8 Sep. 2026 The doc is constructed largely from Hammer’s own archive spanning five decades, alongside audio diaries and present-day conversations with her longtime partner, Florrie Burke.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2026 In great Coppola family tradition, the late Eleanor Coppola was behind the scenes, recording her own video diaries that would become Making Marie Antoinette.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
2 Sep. 2026 Like James himself, the men are clever and bookish, writing letters or diaries, reading voraciously, and imagining themselves into tales of romance and Biblical comeuppance.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
31 Aug. 2026 Historians have gleaned information from journals, letters and diaries, about their dialect.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
27 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diaries
journals
Noun
Ira Price, a U of C professor, had a house in Morgan Park but had to get to Hyde Park and used that bicycle at least a few times for the 6- to 7-mile trip, writing about it in his journals.
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Melinda Moore,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Sep. 2026
In one of these journals, called Notebook B, there is an incidental sketch, a few scratched lines like the barren twigs of a winter tree.