Helen Garner
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All My Small Things March 18, 2025
DO PEOPLE KEEP diaries anymore? In the age of social media, the practice can feel twee and artisanal, like contra dancing or making your own soap. Do we really need yet another forum for our narcissism—another corkboard to amass (and potentially disp...
On Helen Garner’s Diaries March 04, 2025
What secret desires and resentments are tucked inside the people we love? A little girl’s diary, with its tiny lock and key, testifies to the impulse to keep parts of ourselves hidden, but it’s impossible to look at a locked diary without imagining b...
