Writing

Celebrating the history of Hangul, the Korean writing system invented by King Sejong to improve his realm’s literacy.

A museum that houses a collection of stenography machines plus dozens of books, photographs, and guides to shorthand languages from around the world.

For more than 70 years, this small shop has been a go-to for Kolkata's fountain pen connoisseurs and collectors.

The man who created the first Japanese-English Dictionary.

Designed to inspire artists visiting the island.

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

Home to a dizzying array of letterpress blocks with a rich history.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

Ernest Hemingway wrote a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while living with the parents of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.