The idea that someone would make a living writing deeply personal love letters for other people—not as a gimmick, but as ...

There’s something quietly radical about receiving a letter these days. Not an email, not a notification, not a blinking red ...

The art of letter writing is not dead. Rachel Syme, a New Yorker staff writer, learned that during the early days of the pandemic. Longing for human connection, she asked her followers on social media ...

In today’s digital-first world, the art of handwritten letters feels almost forgotten. Yet for children growing up surrounded by instant messaging and emojis, letters carry a kind of weight and magic ...

In 1956, the editor William Maxwell was having some trouble with beetles in his roses. “[W]hen I come on the shreds of one that was exquisite in the morning and raddled by noon,” he wrote to one of ...