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Emily Dickinson

Failed Elegy

Matthew Zapruder

December 2024 Issue

illustration of small brown bird on branch with label "No. 20"

The Right Way to Say the Unsayable

Arthur C. Brooks

September 19, 2024

An illustration of a breaking bottle with drops of liquid bursting out, some with happy faces, some with angry ones

The Nearly Impossible Task of Describing Pain

September 3, 2024

Two panels: a storm cloud on the left and a little square photo of a hand on the right

What Emily Dickinson Left Behind

September 20, 2023

Twelve images of Dickinson family objects arranged in a grid

Introducing an Expanded Books Section

May 16, 2022

A book opened to an image of an open horizon, set against a blue sky

The Surreal TV Show That Rewrote Emily Dickinson’s Story

December 24, 2021

Hailee Steinfeld as Emily Dickinson

The Anachronistic Joy of Dickinson

Kevin Townsend, Sophie Gilbert, Shirley Li, and Spencer Kornhaber

November 19, 2021

Hailee Steinfeld as Emily Dickinson

The Books Briefing: What Literary Letters Reveal

Mary Stachyra Lopez

June 25, 2021

A collage of antique postcards

The Atlantic Daily: 7 Poems to Read This Spring

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

April 9, 2021

The Grapevine Looks a Little Different Today

January 22, 2021

Daphne Bridgerton and Lady Violet Bridgerton examine a gossip pamphlet

The Books Briefing: The Power of Friendship

July 3, 2020

The Encounter That Revealed a Different Side of Emily Dickinson

June 23, 2020

Books Briefing: If Your Attention Span Is Shrinking, Read Poetry

April 3, 2020

Ginsberg reading poetry

If I Should Be a Queen

Emily Dickinson

November 1935 Issue

A portrait of Emily Dickinson on a blue background

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

Martha Hale Shackford

January 1913 Issue