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, ...

Walk into any college lecture hall, and you’ll see a sea of laptops clicking away, accompanied by the occasional frantic scribble of a ballpoint. But every now and then, you’ll spot a glint of metal ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Often, when the day is done — when classes and meetings are over, and when his infant twins and toddler are finally asleep — University at Buffalo chemistry researcher Timothy Cook ...

As much as the digital world has sparked a counter-revolution in analogue technologies – vinyl, film cameras and the like – ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." You—yes, you—you’re an artist, even if you don’t know it. Think about it: When you compose a letter or ...

Fountain pens are the most personal of writing instruments. For a long time, fountain pens were the only type of pen available. When mass-produced ballpoint pens came along, however, most people opted ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When I was 19, I spent a semester in the Northern English city of York. Every Monday, a professor ...

The Varsity pens definitely write smoother than the Zebras, also write a little wetter and have a richer ink color. But they're also a (Japanese) Medium nib, and maybe a little broader than a "real" ...