Hear the name Emily Dickinson, and you’ll probably think of the virginal woman in white, the reclusive Belle of Amherst who died with her “letter to the world” — as she wrote in one of her enigmatic poems — unsent.
She’s already a Supreme Court justice and a pop-culture action hero. And now, Ruth Bader Ginsburg can claim another outsize distinction: winner of a $1 million prize.
NEW YORK — For a young playwright in New York, it’s one thing to draw buzz from critics and theater fans. It’s quite another to have your dense and boundary-pushing off-Broadway play become a talking point among religious conservatives — and not because they hate it.
WASHINGTON — In the summer of 1919, shortly after Congress passed the 19th Amendment, the Smithsonian acquired a few relics from the nearly century-long struggle for women’s suffrage.
WASHINGTON — Ever since Donald Trump laid waste to its ideological shibboleths with his victory at the polls, the conservative intellectual class has been scrambling to keep up with him.
PHILADELPHIA — Since her book “Lead From the Outside” came out in paperback last month, Stacey Abrams has been showing up in places befitting a woman whose razor-thin loss in the 2018 Georgia governor’s race turned her into a national political star.
NEW YORK — The Grolier Club, a redoubt of bibliophiles on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, has no shortage of stately, book-lined interiors that scream — or at least murmur quietly — “serious collectors here.”
CHICAGO — The list of things born in this city includes the skyscraper, the Ferris wheel and (supposedly) brownies. And then there are its wonkier claims to fame.
Susannah Hunnewell, publisher of The Paris Review and a prominent member of its literary circles for three decades, died June 15 in Manhattan. She was 52.
Each May, some 3,000 people descend on Kalamazoo, Michigan, for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, which brings together academics and enthusiasts for four days of scholarly panels, performances and after-hours mead drinking.
PHILADELPHIA — Since her book “Lead From the Outside” came out in paperback in March, Stacey Abrams has been showing up in places befitting a woman whose razor-thin loss in the 2018 Georgia governor’s race turned her into a national political star.
An online archive relating to the fight for women’s suffrage; preservation of the papers of writer Eudora Welty; a project to provide public access to hundreds of hours of interviews made for the landmark civil-rights documentary “Eyes on the Prize”; and restoration of the historic Christ Church, in Philadelphia, which once counted Betsy Ross and George Washington among its members, are among the recipients of new grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
In her suit, filed in July, Rowe claimed that her compensation was only about 75 percent that of her closest comparable colleague, the orchestra’s principal oboist, who is a man.
