Drake’s old notebook finally sold and you’ll never guess how much was paid for it. The 32-year-old singer’s high school scribble notebook was found in a dumpster near his grandfather’s furniture ...

After living through a year like 2020, it only makes sense that people would want to both process their complicated emotions tied to the pandemic, and document history for posterity by journaling.

In the last year of my undergraduate career, I’ve been reconsidering the role of writing as a type of artistic performance, and, more importantly, as a type of social change. How does writing make ...

When I was 11, I was given a little five-year diary with a lock and key. I wrote the usual pre-pubescent stuff in it, a few lines a day, most days. At 14, I began using steno notebooks, and over the ...

While editor of The Astorian some 20 years ago, a reader wrote me a letter regarding a planning debate the town was having. In her letter, the reader referred to “our pristine waterfront.” The essence ...

Paul Allen, Gerry Lenfest, and Pete Peterson, three major Philanthropy 50 alumni who died last year, couldn’t have been more different in style and personality. But one thing they had in common was an ...