OZARK, Mo. – Maria Dominque of Ozark has spent the last 14 years writing thousands and thousands of letters. The recipients of the letters are loved ones of service men and women that have died since ...

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 ...

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 ...