The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts reopened this week after more than two years of renovations—and flocks of visitors are expected to come, with all immediately available tours ...

Emily Dickinson famously wrote “tell all the truth but tell it slant.” A characteristically enigmatic phrase, it’s both striking and open to multiple interpretations. Still, it might suggest that ...

AMHERST — With the completion of the Carriage House, the Emily Dickinson Museum hopes to show what literary history looked like in its prime. The museum in Amherst will be closer than ever to creating ...

In the sitting room where she often improvised “weird and beautiful melodies” on piano, the poet Emily Dickinson kept an Aeolian harp. Built for her by John Graves, a friend and distant cousin, the ...

Bringing long-dead, literary figures to life for contemporary audiences is a challenge, but that's the Emily Dickinson Museum's mission. Now the 19th-century poet's home in Amherst has reopened after ...

In honor of Women's History Month, Shelf Life pauses today in appreciation of another woman of the page: Emily Dickinson. Go here to learn more about Dickinson and her work. To visit the Dickinson ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Just in time for Women’s History Month, Mississippi State’s Theatre MSU partners next week with Starkville Community Theatre for a special production of “The Belle of Amherst,” a ...

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. In a ...

In the previous post, we described a period of emotional turmoil, The Terror, that Dickinson experienced in 1861, followed by a resilient period of renewed energy. By 1866, however, her writing ...

“Here is our ‘Wizard of Oz’ moment,” a guide said on a recent afternoon, before opening a door and stepping into the front foyer of the Emily Dickinson Museum. It’s not a comment you expect at the ...