No literary pilgrimage to Massachusetts can be complete without a visit to the Amherst home of one of the most important ...

Emily Dickinson is high on the list of people I crave to meet, but inviting her to a dinner party simply wouldn’t do. She would defer to everyone else, saying nothing, but storing up every ...

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 ...

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

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.

Home to renowned colleges and universities and the birthplace of numerous writers and artists, Western Mass is an historic ...

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.

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