For the past year and a half, Gary Fine has operated Prisoner Express from his apartment: sending books, letters and programming packets to incarcerated individuals through his nationwide organization ...

While searching through boxes after her mother’s death, Nancy Hayes Kilgore came across handwritten letters from her ...

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 ...

The letter-writing event went through Letters Against Isolation, an organization dedicated to fighting senior loneliness ...

I exchanged my first letter with a person in prison back in 2011. That exchange was with Sam Israel III, who had faked his death and was serving a 22-year sentence for financial fraud. I was ...

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 ...

Each installment of The Friendship Files features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she ...

“A Private Spy,” a collection of correspondence spanning much of his life, offers a fresh look at his brilliance — and his contradictions By Sarah Lyall A prolific correspondent and artful curator of ...

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