She lets out a sigh and has a good cry, I tell her to release her feelings one at a time,” Cecelia, 30, wrote in a poem that ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

Valentine's cards and gifts have their roots in English traditions — but Americans have long embraced them for romantic partners and other loved ones.

JEANNE HARTIG, of Pittsburgh, Pa., one of the more than 1,000 New York Times readers who answered a request to share memories about “the one who got away.” Twenty of the best stories of electric ...

Taking a four-day spa trip to Rome on her own turned out to be this writer’s dream getaway. But even just a museum visit or ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.