pages of the spiral-bound notebooks that served Sirhan Bishara Sirhan as a diary. Meandering on and on in an unpunctuated stream of consciousness, they speak of death. My determination to ...

When Will Self's mother, Elaine Rosenbloom Self, was dying of cancer in 1988, he and his brother found her diaries stashed under her bed in her North London flat. The diaries — comprising more ...