The written word has always been a core instrument for humans to share knowledge and express their ideas, emotions, and thoughts. From cave paintings and hieroglyphics to pens, typewriters, and ...

Humanity’s quest for more efficient ways of recording information can be tracked through the IP protection for the earliest pens through to today’s smart devices, says Marisol Cardoso of Inventa The ...

Writing evolves to become simpler and more efficient, according to a new study based on the analysis of an isolated West African writing system. The world's very first invention of writing took place ...

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 ...

I loved reading Laura Washington’s column on the art of the letter (“The digital age is destroying the art of the letter,” Jan. 30). One of the most meaningful relationships I have had in my life has ...

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 ...

The mom of two shares how the discovery inspired her Dearist Jennifer Yang found a letter to a friend she never sent and started thinking about what letter-writing meant to her Inspired and wanting to ...

"Correspondence is a leap of faith, and that is part of what makes it wonderful," says Rachel Syme, author of Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence. "You may never know if the person ...