For as long as human beings have been able to write, sex and death have been the topics of choice. And after all, our fascination is no surprise when you consider that these two subjects are on the very short list of things that all people have in common. Regardless of your class, color or [...]

A Western Union telegram from the 1940s. An “I Love You” scribbled in red pen on a book of matches from the late ’90s. A postcard, Post-it note, fraying napkin. An email, text message or string of emoticon. A million IMs. These are the shapes and forms, spanning nearly a century, of the myriad testimonials of the heart and head in Other People’s Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See, edited by Bill Shapiro.