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 ...

Emily Dickinson, whose birthday was December 10, 1830, was a poet known for her reclusive lifestyle. Many of us today, being increasingly reclusive ourselves, have grown to appreciate the incredible ...

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Hailee Steinfeld as the young 19th-century poet in "Dickinson." (Apple) “Dickinson” is many things: a period drama, an irreverent millennial comedy, an eccentric family sitcom, a wildly imaginative ...

Dickinson, arguably the greatest nature poet (and religious poet and love poet) of the American 19th century, didn’t just observe the flora and fauna around her. She treated them — birds and bugs, ...

When the novelist Emma Donoghue first started to realize she was gay, as a 14-year-old student at a Catholic convent school in Dublin, only one person seemed to understand her: a 19th-century American ...

'Dickinson' creator Alena Smith talks to THR about the Apple TV+ half-hour comedy starring Hailee Steinfeld as a young version of Emily Dickinson, including the poet's fluid sexuality, how Apple Music ...