Drew Calvert is a writer living in Southern California. “My friends are my estate,” Emily Dickinson wrote to Samuel Bowles in 1859, in a letter whose chief purpose was to thank him for a pamphlet.

Emily Dickinson hardly seems like the ideal subject of a launch-day Apple TV+ comedy starring Hailee Steinfeld in the title role. Dickinson, after all, is probably poetry’s most famous recluse—a woman ...

One of the most fun aspects of “Dickinson” is that the Apple TV+ series mixes the life of 19th century poet Emily Dickinson with 21st century music. Last season featured needle drops from the likes of ...

To write about Emily Dickinson is a very different experience than chronicling the lives of Herman Melville and Charles Darwin who appeared in earlier posts. Her life had little of the exterior action ...