Thus letter-writing is a risk. Even if said letter is only a shopping list, its composition and dispatch require effort, ...

Ito Ogawa's Tsubaki Stationery Store follows a small-town scribe who writes the letters others can't find the words for.

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 ...

In 1956, the editor William Maxwell was having some trouble with beetles in his roses. “[W]hen I come on the shreds of one that was exquisite in the morning and raddled by noon,” he wrote to one of ...