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A 400-year-old Shakespeare mystery has gotten a major shake-up.

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Tired of texting? Send your loved ones some snail mail instead. Rachel Syme, author of "Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence," shares whimsical ways to start a letter-writing habit.

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An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization. By Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender Harvard ...

Jack Krasula, an admirer of the late pontiff, treasures a signed magazine cover and a letter outlining Francis' fundamental ...

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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Knopf publisher Jordan Pavlin and Shelley Wanger, Joan Didion's longtime editor and one of her literary trustees about the new book Notes to John.