Emily Dickinson is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. But that wasn’t always the case. When her poems became public after her death in 1886, they drew criticism ...

Considering how many recent TV and film adaptations of her life there have been, you might think Emily Dickinson was one of the most famous poets of her time. Quite the contrary, though. Dickinson was ...

For those with perhaps a grade school exposure to Emily Dickinson or a wariness about poetry, "Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson" is comfortably akin to Cliffs Notes. Which is not to say that ...

In The Thing with Feathers, the writer-director Dylan Southern works hard to fashion the material into a pleasing film. It retains the book’s tripartite structure, with chapters for Dad, the Boys and ...