Here is a common scene: A supervisor agrees to write your letter of recommendation with one condition—you draft it. Shocker. We, too, were surprised the first time this happened to us. We assumed ...

In her new book, Syme's Letter Writer, Rachel Syme of The New Yorker explains how to write a delightful letter to a loved one. Unlike texting and email, old-fashioned letters, hand-addressed and sent ...

And now we have reached the final chapter in this little miniseries about writing systems! Today I’d like to say a little bit about the concept of the ‘letter’… So, we have done the different kinds of ...

"What is healing, but a shift in perspective?” — Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast Transactional writing — or letter writing — gets you beyond what you thought you could not get over. With all the other ways ...

Portrait of Jane Baillie Carlyle (formerly Jane Baillie Welsh), circa 1845. For centuries, biographers have been able to rely on a priceless resource when it comes to 18th, 19th and 20th century ...