“Restless night, what do I do with this desire? The same goes for today, when again I won’t see him. I weep from desire, this all-consuming hunger for him.” To celebrate Annie Ernaux’s Nobel Prize in Literature, we’ve unlocked her 1988 diary entries (which she later used to write Simple Passion), published in issue no. 239 (Spring 2022). Follow the link in bio to read them. Translated by Alison L. Strayer.