Introducing an Expanded Books Section
This magazine has always been a destination for great writers and for those who love literature. That’s why we’re making books a much bigger part of what we do.
When Emily Dickinson encountered her first real book as a child, she experienced a moment of pure, joyful recognition. “This, then, is a book!” she . “And there are more of them!” would go on to publish Dickinson’s poems; perhaps more important, it introduced her to a lifelong mentor, Thomas Wentworth Higginson. After Dickinson read his article ” in the April 1862 issue of , she to him, beginning a decades-long correspondence.
