New research reveals that when we outsource the effort of finding the right words, we strip our relationships of their value.
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Letters from Byron to his best friend Elizabeth reveal the intense emotions of one of his first queer relationships.
Edwina Preston pays tribute to the humble letter: from literary love letters to philosophical lessons to cherished family heirlooms. Letters impart lessons, reveal character – and are a form of art.
A photo beamed via a satellite from a smartphone is never the same as the description of a place the lover must try hard to imagine.
Stacks of treasured love letters can tell the intimate stories of war.
Perhaps we can think of the love letter and other gestures of romantic love as forms or techniques that mediate the violence of time, dispossession and exclusion.
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