Emily Dickinson

The supposed recluse constantly sent letters to friends, family, and lovers. What do they show us?

Funny, convivial, chatty—a new edition of Emily Dickinson's letters upends the myth of her reclusive genius. 

The winding story of how a trove of 8,000 of the poet’s family objects were saved.

How Emily Dickinson, scientists, and other writers theorized plant intelligence in the nineteenth century.

An exploration of the potential effects of regional accents on poetry and slant-rhyme.

A new edition of Emily Dickinson’s Master letters highlights what remains blazingly intense and mysterious in her work.

Emily Dickinson and the woman in her orbit.

A new biography and TV show present Emily Dickinson as a self-aware artist who created a life that defied the limits placed on women.

“Come with me this morning to the church within our hearts, where the bells are always ringing, and the preacher whose name is Love — shall intercede for us!”

A look into the life, art, and "wildness" of influential choreographer Martha Graham.

A new book explores the final days of Ralph Waldo Emerson - traveling from Concord to California, and beyond.

Coming to love Puritan poetry is an odd aesthetic journey. It's the sort of thing you expect people partial to bowties and gin gimlets to get involved with.

A friend of Henry David Thoreau, Ellen Sewall Osgood's pursuit of her scientific passion illuminates the limits and possibilities placed on the era's women.

Born after the Civil War, he turned himself into its most powerful witness—and modernized the American novel.

He devoted a lifetime to studying America’s foundation, witnessed its near-dissolution, and uncannily anticipated its evolution.

He was the most revered poet of his day. It’s worth trying to figure out why.

This year, Merriam-Webster added a new definition to the word “they”: “used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary.”

Archivists are figuring out which pieces of artists' digital lives to preserve alongside letters, sketchbooks, and scribbled-on napkins.

Tracing its emergence of as a distinct cultural institution.

In early 20th-century St. Louis, Pearl Curran claimed to have conjured a long-dead New England Puritan named Patience Worth through a Ouija board.