The absence of a “Santa Claus rally” does not doom the U.S. stock market in 2025. The period from Christmas through the second trading day of January marks the traditional definition of the ...

Do you have a daily letter writing practice? I try. I usually—instead of morning pages, like some people—I wake up and I’ll write a letter. I’ll wake my brain up by writing someone a ...

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Joan Didion There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through it. It’s where the best Los Angeles writers have done their work ...

An 1810 sketch of Jane Austen by the novelist’s sister, Cassandra, will accompany the writing desk used by the author of Emma and Pride and Prejudice. This 1839 painting of Charles Dickens by ...