Book Review: Amherst
/When a 21st-century woman travels to the hometown of Emily Dickinson, she finds herself caught between a passionate present and a past far more human than she imagined
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When a 21st-century woman travels to the hometown of Emily Dickinson, she finds herself caught between a passionate present and a past far more human than she imagined
Read MoreNobody would accuse the mature Larkin of being a greeting card poet, and yet a warm and even vulnerable sentimentality bubbles up in his verse, often when it's least expected.
Read MoreBoston, so often reproved for living in its memories, may well be poised to lead the future, not in spite of its history but because of it.
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