I read about Saint Augustine and his strange discovery in Anne Trubek’s new book, “The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting.” It’s a fascinating examination of a subject I hadn’t really given much thought to. Handwriting - is there much to say about that? It turns out there is. Trubek’s book often feels a bit like a history of human civilisation, in fact, taking us from Cuneiform in the fourth millennium BCE, through to the present day where cursive is no longer being taught in the majority of American schools. It’s fascinating to see how handwriting has threaded itself through human life in the last few thousand years.
