The Sorrows of Young Werther has come a long way since Goethe published it in the late 18th century. It was the novel that turned Goethe into an international celebrity. Napoleon carried a copy with ...

LONDON — The ink has barely faded, and the paper has only slightly yellowed. For nearly 250 years, the letters, more than 100 of them, sat sealed in Britain’s National Archives, unopened and ...

Today, as the art of handwritten notes gradually fades, one common way to court someone is to slide into his or her DMs. Made of a single, one-foot square of laid paper, the love token was folded so ...

Historian William Dalrymple travels to Hyderabad in India to explore the remarkable 18th-century love affair between a British diplomat and the Muslim princess he married. Tensions ran high when an ...

“Woman’s empire is an empire of gentleness, skill, and obligingness; her orders are caresses, her threats are tears.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Dating on online apps forces us to answer all sorts of ...