Correspondence

Jen Mediano on Letter-Writing, Losing Touch, and Second-Hand Mourning

“Letters are a hinge into the invisible world; a place to share and to hone.”

 
By Jen Mediano  June 30, 2022
Correspondence

What a Letter Captures—and Preserves—in the Age of Social Media

By Nikki Erlick  June 28, 2022
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“I Am Disgusted with Things as They Are.” Ralph Ellison on the Injustice and Poverty of 1937 New York

By Shaun Usher  November 5, 2021
Correspondence

The Beauty of Artistic Correspondence Through Collage: Ray Johnson and William S. Wilson

By Elizabeth Zuba  November 20, 2020
Correspondence

For the Love of Mail: Letter Writing
in a Pandemic

By Lauren Markham  September 4, 2020
Correspondence

Lydia Davis on Making the Decision
Not to Fly

By Lydia Davis  July 20, 2020
Correspondence

Poetry in Letters:
An Exchange Between Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison

By Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison  June 19, 2020
Correspondence

Tove Jansson Falls in Love

By Tove Jansson  March 11, 2020
Correspondence

The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

By John F. Callahan  December 6, 2019
Correspondence

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

By Dheepa Maturi  October 21, 2019
Correspondence

A Friendship in Letters:
Flannery O’Connor and Katherine Anne Porter

By Benjamin B. Alexander  October 16, 2019
Correspondence

The Last Love Letters of Anti-Nazi German Resistance Fighters

By Helmuth Caspar von Moltke, Dorothea von Moltke, and Johannes von Moltke  September 18, 2019
Correspondence

On My 42-Year Correspondence with W.S. Merwin

By Howard Norman  July 24, 2019
Correspondence

Isabella Hammad: A Book is Like a Letter—Not Often Addressed to Us

By Isabella Hammad  April 22, 2019
Correspondence

Letters to Vera

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