Here’s why it matters that a new Dickenson series feels so modern, and why it matters that new scholarship refutes the old lies about the poet. “If the ‘real’ person of Dickinson is translated and refracted through a pop-cultural idiom of hip hop and teen genre fiction, so much of the ‘real’ nineteenth century—of women’s domestic labor, of anti-immigrant electoral politics, of anti-black racism, of compulsory heterosexuality—can simply be imported. Because here we are, still living it.” – The Boston Review