For Sylvia Plath, less was more -- at least, when it came to her favorite cocktail. Discover which iconic tipple was beloved ...

BBC radio interview, Sylvia Plath described how she first met Ted Hughes: “I happened to be at Cambridge… I’d read some of ...

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Plath’s posthumous poetry collection changed the cultural landscape on its release in 1965. Its grace and power grip us still ...

Books & the Arts / In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without ...

In “Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne doesn’t aim to compete directly with Clark, or with the long roster of Plath’s previous biographers, including Edward Butscher, Ronald Hayman ...

The first novel by Heather Clark, an acclaimed biographer of Sylvia Plath, is about a Harvard senior who falls for a ...

Loving Sylvia Plath, subtitled “A Reclamation”, by Emily Van Duyne, is a case study from this genre, a bold and idiosyncratic volume that takes the traditional reader of Ariel into a world of ...

The Daffodil Days depicts a pivotal year in the marriage of 20th-century literature’s most infamous couple, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.

In “Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne focuses on Plath’s life and poetry as exemplars of the struggle for liberation from a patriarchal value system that celebrated marriage and ...

The six Sylvia Plath poems in focus here are “Mushrooms,” “You’re,” “The Babysitters,” “The Applicant,” “Ariel,” and “Edge.” Sarah Ruden deftly distributes discussions of the poems into a succinct and ...

In “Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne doesn’t aim to compete directly with Clark or with the long roster of Plath’s previous biographers, including Edward Butscher, Ronald Hayman, Paul ...