To start this New Year, our collectors submitted fine family heirlooms and an interesting antique shop find. The family keepsakes include an ornate Waterman fountain pen, a Dorflinger cut glass ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at ...

Defying modernity, fountain pen collectors find beauty beyond typing, texting and other ways of rendering words.

A fountain pen, to me, was something people used for actual calligraphy. I knew fountain pens were part of the whole Classic Man thing that Esquire is built on, but I tapped out at buying a nice suit.

Home Living Ballpoint vs fountain pen: which should you be writing with? It's the battle of the writing titans, but which is better; ballpoint or fountain pen?

From the reasonably priced to the more expensive, there are so many fountain pens to choose from and different features to consider. Pay attention to the size of the nib, refills and whether it ...

The Adonit Star is an iPad stylus that looks like a classy fountain pen. It enables palm rejection (with compatible models), and not much else -- it's simple.

A fountain pen is like a tie these days. It’s not a necessity but an expression of taste—and a chance to snatch a little extra joy from the grip of everyday existence.

BOOK EXCERPT Why Gandhi disliked the fountain pen: He thought it would metamorphose villages into cities An excerpt from ‘Inked in India: Fountain Pens and a Story of Make and Unmake’, by ...

A fountain pen, to me, was something people used for actual calligraphy. I knew fountain pens were part of the whole Classic Man thing that Esquire is built on, but I tapped out at buying a nice suit.