In its first special exhibition since its reopening, New York’s Frick Collection brings together three Johannes Vermeer ...

I love to do nice things for people, for no other reason but to bring joy, but I especially love the opportunity to do ...

"The penny is the first monetary item that most American children touch and they quickly identify with who Abraham Lincoln ...

Two researchers are proposing a new reading of the Song of Wade, a once widely known epic from the 12th century, thanks to a scribe’s error they unearthed.

The consumer interest in well-crafted handwriting tools in Japan bespeaks a worldwide turn, or return, to old-fashioned pen ...

The flooding that ravaged Central Texas before sunrise on the Fourth of July was the country’s deadliest catastrophe for ...

In their final interview before dying at 49, Andrea Gibson reads a tender poem for their wife that’s now touching hearts across the internet.

WHEN I was at university my dad wrote me the occasional letter. They were quite short, and generally just accounts of a typical day at home; comings and goings through the front door, the morning dog ...

The line-up, including actors Benedict Cumberbatch and James Norton and writer Caitlin Moran, read a series of letters to festival-goers about a range of subjects, from pop music to parenting. Letters ...

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 ...