In the early 1950s, small, peculiar love letters were pinned up on the walls of the computing lab at the University of Manchester. These are strange love letters, for sure. And the history behind them ...

"What is healing, but a shift in perspective?” — Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast Transactional writing — or letter writing — gets you beyond what you thought you could not get over. With all the other ways ...

A team of researchers has developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) that’s able to turn thoughts of written letters into on-screen text. For the first time ever a team of researchers says it has ...

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 ...