She had never seen Vesuvius; in fact, she had rarely left and never too far or for too long her room in the house with a ...

Food is the one thing that binds us together across generations, no matter the title or social status. Even history's most ...

Although Emily Dickinson's poetry wasn't appreciated until after her death in 1886, her baking skills were much appreciated ...

I found a kindred spirit in Emily Dickinson quite early in life. A letter the reclusive author wrote at the age of 23, ...

By comparison, Emily Dickinson’s known epistolary output (1,304), written for a tighter circle of correspondents, seems measly. Yet she, too, appreciated the value of speedy delivery.

Few events in American literary history have been more curious than the sudden rise of Emily Dickinson into a posthumous fame only more accentuated by the utterly recluse character of her life and ...

History’s greatest artists and thinkers reward reinterpretation. A Shakespeare or a Curie can feel different in different decades — can reveal something fresh about their time, and also ours.

Jennifer Garner posted a video of her walking through a stone labyrinth to Instagram, set to a recording of Helena Bonham Carter reading an Emily Dickinson poem Jennifer Garner is sharing some ...