Hope is the first word of three different poems by Emily Dickinson, the first of which famously continues, “is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul.” This Dickinson poem appears to date ...

In The Thing with Feathers, the writer-director Dylan Southern works hard to fashion the material into a pleasing film. It ...

How brainwashing works: “I began my formal research in 1999, eight years after battling my way out of a secret, so-called Marxist-Leninist group whose leader controlled my life in its most intimate ...

How was Emily Dickinson able to be frugal and fruitful in her art? “The way Hope builds his House,” inscribed on an envelope, circa 1879 “There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away,” ...