I was 17 when I first read "The Fig Tree" by Sylvia Plath. I was just about to graduate school and begin my life. My mind was overflowing with ideas, countries, and careers I wanted to pursue. But the ...
Sylvia Plath may have Hollywood staying power, but her influence on young women often fades as they age. Here, Janet Rafferty and her daughter Mary consider how adulthood altered their perceptions of ...
In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes. A photograph of Sylvia Plath on her grave at St ...
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 motherhood as a ...
This is an edition of the revamped Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Her approach is granular, in a word. I actually listened to Red Comet as an ...
Sylvia Plath loved to draw, write poems, keep bees, and tend to her two children. That a poet has now brought together all elements of the writer’s life in a book for young readers that celebrates ...
The quote often appears in meme form, using graphics created by popular quotation meme websites AZ Quotes and Minimalist Quotes. However, Plath never said these words. The quote, which is a version of ...
From the book "FIRST LOVE: Essays on Friendship" by Lilly Dancyger. Copyright © 2024 by Lilly Dancyger. Published by The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House, a ...
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The Silencing of Sylvia Plath
In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her ...
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