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Sylvia Plath

July 2024

  • Lorrie Moore.

    The books of my life
    Lorrie Moore: ‘I would never read literature for comfort’

    The American author on finding sympathy for Ted Hughes, a Palestinian take on Hamlet, and the joy of cookery books

December 2023

  • Christina Britzolakis

    Other lives
    Christina Britzolakis obituary

    Other lives: English lecturer at Warwick University who wrote a book analysing the writing of Sylvia Plath

October 2023

  • In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, photo provided by Nobel Prize Outreach, Louise Glück poses outside her home n Cambridge, Mass., where she was awarded a medal for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. The pomp and ceremony of the Nobel prize ceremonies were altered this year amid measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Instead, the laureates' achievements are being rewarded at low-key ceremonies where they live or work. (Daniel Ebersole/ Nobel Prize Outreach via AP)

    Louise Glück obituary

    Former US poet laureate who could create a landscape in her work that made her seem a visionary

August 2023

  • Composite of Jessica Zhan Mei Yu and their book, But the Girl

    But The Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu review – an impressive debut

  • Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, author of But the Girl, pictured looking out a window

    I grew up loving The Bell Jar. Then I noticed how Sylvia Plath wrote about people that looked like me

    Jessica Zhan Mei Yu

May 2023

  • Pulitzer prize winner Toni Morrison.

    A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs review – on the shoulders of giants

    The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce

April 2023

  • Illustrations from George, a book by Frieda Hughes, the daughter of former poet laureate, Ted Hughes, about how she adopted and nursed back to health an injured baby magpie.

    ‘I was his surrogate mother who happened to double as a tree’: How Frieda Hughes fell for a magpie chick

  • Frieda Hughes, photographed at home with one of her 13 owls

    Frieda Hughes: ‘A crow’s death linked me to all the other losses in my life’

February 2023

  • The plaid skirt owned and worn by Sylvia Plath, circa 1956.

    Poets’ dress code: what the clothes of Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde and Stevie Smith tell us about their inner lives

    A new exhibition, dovetailing with the 60th anniversary of Plath’s death, showcases a skirt she wore to Paris in 1956, Smith’s collection of pristine shirt collars, and the symbolic asymmetric kaftan worn by Lorde after her mastectomy
  • Sylvia Plath.

    ‘Her writing became a catalyst for my own’: the power of Sylvia Plath

    On the 60th anniversary of Plath’s death, Emily Berry celebrates the poet’s vigour, brilliance and relatability
  • The Kiss by Auguste Rodin.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 love poems

    For Valentine’s, or really any other day, here are some works by poets from Plath to Rilke that express some of our own most intimate feelings

December 2022

  • Sylvia Plath at the National Portrait Gallery Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in Yorkshire, England 1956

    Book of the day
    Euphoria by Elin Cullhed review – inside the mind of Sylvia Plath

    The Swedish writer offers an audacious, gripping novel imagining the poet’s final year and the conflict between creative genius and domestic life

October 2022

  • Sylvia Plath.

    Where to start with
    Where to start with: Sylvia Plath

    You will have heard of the great American poet, but how much of her work have you actually read? This handy primer suggests some good ways in

July 2022

  • Ted Hughes, 1966 GNM Archive ref: JHB/2/1/49

    Unpublished Ted Hughes poems about partner Assia Wevill to be sold

    The recently found notebook of fragments and finished work has been described as the poet’s ‘most direct’ response to the suicide of his partner and daughter in 1969

March 2022

  • Visitors to the the exhibition Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Icon in Barcelona last year.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about suffering artists

    From Max Porter’s vision of Francis Bacon’s last days to Heather Clark’s fresh look at Sylvia Plath, these works complicate our understanding of the links between pain and art

July 2021

  • A pencil sketch by Sylvia Plath entitled Great Faux Pas, for sale at Sotheby’s.

    Sylvia Plath’s letters to Ted Hughes among intimate items to be auctioned

  • FILE - The New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm leaves the Federal Courthouse in San Francisco on June 3, 1993 in the suit trial brought by psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, who claims he was misquoted and libeled in a 1983 magazine article. Malcolm, the inquisitive and boldly subjective author and reporter known for her challenging critiques of everything from murder cases and art to journalism itself, has died. She was 86. Malcolm’s death was confirmed Thursday by a spokesperson for The New Yorker, where Malcolm was a longtime staff writer. (AP Photo/George Nikitin, File)

    Janet Malcolm obituary

May 2021

  • Mind the gap

    Out of office: how the pandemic is rewriting the workplace novel

    A new crop of novels are exploring work culture and burnout – yet for many, the office feels like a distant memory. In the light of coronavirus, where will this literature go next?

October 2020

  • The Happy Prince - film still Rupert Everett

    Book of the day
    To the End of the World by Rupert Everett review – a delightful writer on modern fame

    Chatting up Thierry Henry, being sick on Colin Firth ... and the saga of an obsession with Oscar Wilde, told in this third memoir with Everett’s usual seductive style

September 2020

  • Anne Stevenson made a deep impression on the landscape of postwar British and American poetry.

    Anne Stevenson obituary

    Poet and Plath biographer who explored a wide world of thought and feeling
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