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The Return of Handwriting

How cursive, which carries social and cognitive benefits, became the latest fetish of the analogue authenticity set

Jon Marcus
Forge
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6 min readJan 2, 2019

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Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

AsAs holiday shoppers browse the handmade notecards out front, a group assembles in the back of a bright, old-fashioned letterpress shop near Harvard University. The dozen strangers, from…

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Jon Marcus
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Jon Marcus writes for The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other U.S. and U.K. media outlets.