If you see a small pink or purple journal seemingly abandoned on a park bench somewhere in the Boston area, don’t turn it in to the lost and found. Instead, take a seat and write something in it.

The first time I taught a college course called “The London Diary” for young Americans studying abroad back in 2002, each student ended up with a tangible book of memories, a handwritten record of ...

On October 26, 1977, the day after his mother died, French philosopher and literary theorist Roland Barthes began the “Mourning Diary”—a series of reflections written on small pieces of paper the size ...

When the government's chief scientific adviser started a "brain dump" of diary entries on the Covid crisis in 2020, he says he did not expect - or want - it to be published. Instead, Sir Patrick ...