An emotional night at the theater, a childhood trip to Manhattan and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. Dear Diary: I was in the audience for a performance of ...

Our only daughter and her fiancé are getting married in Denmark in a few weeks, as it’s where he’s from and where they met. She invited me and her dad, of course, but we can’t go as my ...

“The name ‘Dear Henrietta’ feels like writing to someone safe. Someone who won’t judge. Someone who won’t turn away,” one of its creators explains. Like a diary entry or a letter to an ...

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Joy Webb has been writing her diary for 40 years.Photograph: Viktor Pravdica/Alamy ...