Letter writing, like vinyls and analogue photography, is making a come back. In 2021, the U.S. Postal Service sent cards and ...

When was the last time you sat down, put pen to paper and wrote a letter? It could be to a friend, family or even a letter to ...

In 1985, a 13-year-old girl in New Zealand spotted a pair of purple, lip-shaped sunglasses in “Young Miss” magazine. In March ...

This story was originally published on April 24, 2025, and has been updated. The art of letter writing is not dead. Rachel Syme, a New Yorker staff writer, learned that during the early days of the ...

From time immemorial, handwritten correspondence has ranked among the most intimate and vibrant modes of human communication. To the letter writer, an unfilled folio is an empty receptacle, a vessel ...

Is letter writing a dying art? Not so fast. In today’s day and age, retro is cool again. Nostalgia is huge, and brands are increasingly marketing nostalgia to consumers who want to return to the 1990s ...

Letters did not count [as writing]. A woman might write letters while sitting by her father’s sick-bed. She could write them by the fire while the men talked without disturbing them. The strange thing ...

the light of humans’ blazing cornerstone. I’m certainly not the first to write about the lost art of letter writing — an art that has been usurped by technology, texts and tweets. From TED Talks to ...