This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at ...

Here’s our guide to the best-looking and smoothest writing pens, whether it’s for jotting, sketching or your very best copperplate script. German brand Kaweco is offering a special edition of its ...

Drawing inspiration from the Taj Mahal ... With only one of these produced each year, this Diamante fountain pen boasts a platinum barrel encrusted with over 30 carats of De Beers diamonds ...

While that may very well be, depending on your age, you probably used a regular wood-case pencil before graduating to the ballpoint pen, never experiencing the joys of the fountain pen.

The fountain pen as a practical writing instrument has been declared obsolete numerous times. It was supposedly doomed by the innovations of the drip-free ballpoint pen and the typewriter ...