By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

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Robert Eggers has only made four movies, but he is already celebrated for his unstinting focus on period detail. It turns out that he was inspired by the best.

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For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

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A violin handcrafted in 1714 by Antonio Stradivari, the famous Italian luthier, has been sold for $11.25 million by Boston’s ...