Emily Dickinson
‘FEEL THE FIRE WHERE SHE WALKS’
WILD NIGHTS
Credit where it’s due: “Dickinson” is certainly the most interesting of Apple TV+’s freshman class. But Hailee Steinfeld’s anachronistic bacchanal isn’t as clever as it thinks.
@I’m Nobody
What would the 19th century poet do with Facebook, or a dating service, or Twitter? Artist Rosanna Bruno has imagined a more social Belle of Amherst.
LITERARY LADIES
The drawings of Sylvia Plath and the envelope scrawlings of Emily Dickinson afford rare glimpses into the minds of two great poets.
Ever since her death the reclusive poet’s life has fascinated readers and a new novel explores her unknown romantic life. Donna Seaman on the latest twist in Dickinson’s afterlife.
This week: a revelatory biography of Emily Dickinson’s passionate friendship, an essential primer on Iran, a candy-themed novel about one family’s fortune and dark past, a memoir from French star Leslie Caron, and the remarkable relationship of Pollock and Hart Benton.
The famed biographer of Flannery O’Connor and Frank O’Hara recommends five books, from the favorite novel of his youth (The Razor’s Edge) to the favorite novel of today’s teens (Twilight).