In addition to his work on theatre, Agate was film critic to "The Tatler" and literary critic to "The Daily Express", and also had leisure interests that occupied much time and money. He was a cricket and boxing enthusiast, the owner of Hackney show horses, and an avid golfer. All these are reflected in his diaries, published between 1935 and his death in a series of volumes entitled "Ego", "Ego 2", "Ego 3", etc. (When he published "Ego 8", his friend and sometime secretary Leo Pavia enquired, "Will the Ninth be choral?") The historian Jacques Barzun, a fan of Agate and editor of a reissue of the last two volumes of Agate's "Ego" series, highlighted Agate in 2001, which rekindled the interest of a new generation: