This week, as we near the end of 2025, the writers and editors of KQED Arts & Culture are reflecting on One Beautiful Thing from the year. ail has always been boring for me. Besides the occasional ...

They're fun, they're analog and they keep you connected to your loved ones. Journalist and author Rachel Syme explains how to write a great letter... Need more whimsy in your life? Start a ...

The people still writing letters share more than just good penmanship.

The act of writing letters may be written off as obsolete, but the power of the written word remains as potent as ever. Here’s why your mind benefits when your hand writes. In the age of instant ...

To the editor: Many years ago, I wrote to The Times commending David L. Ulin on his piece retracing Holden Caulfield’s path through Manhattan in “The Catcher in the Rye.” And now I’m writing to ...

the light of humans’ blazing cornerstone. I’m certainly not the first to write about the lost art of letter writing — an art that has been usurped by technology, texts and tweets. From TED Talks to ...

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 ...