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 ...

The key is making it easy and lowering your standards dramatically.

Back in 1935 when Fats Waller recorded “I’m Going to Sit Right Down and Right Myself a Letter” he had no idea that the written letter, a common means of communication for centuries, would be an ...

Last semester, I turned 20 during my first week abroad in Denmark. I spent the next month checking my mailbox every day, looking for the birthday cards sent by my grandma and friends at home in ...