As someone who looks deeply beneath the surface of things, I have been obsessed for some years by the great philosophical question: when did expensive pens become "prestige writing instruments?" I ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at school, ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that serious, but if ...

SINGAPORE — Every morning, 56-year-old Rick Ho spends three hours improving his handwriting. With his fountain pen, he copies his favourite passages or quotes from books in cursive script. Describing ...

There’s nothing quite like using the best fountain pens to get your writing done. The whole experience is rewarding, from purchasing one and unpacking it, to using it for the first time. When you buy ...

A fine fountain pen is a lifetime companion, but even a well-engineered, low-cost refillable rollerball should be desirable enough to make you want to keep it around. Here’s our guide to the ...

There are two types of people in the world – those who think a pen is just a pen and those who know that a pen is an instrument of such power that they are fanatically particular about what they write ...

You—yes, you—you’re an artist, even if you don’t know it. Think about it: When you compose a letter or write in a diary by hand, you’re inadvertently creating nothing less than a piece of found art, ...

In an age of fleeting digital messages and disposable culture, a growing movement is rediscovering the power of analog tools. We investigate why the fountain pen is making a major comeback from a ...