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. In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath ...

Heather Clark’s massive, ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath, “Red Comet,” published in 2020, might have seemed like the last word on the poet’s mercurial life and tragic death.

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 ...

This beginner’s guide opens the door to Sylvia Plath’s hauntingly beautiful world of poetry. From love and longing to trauma ...

“Loving Sylvia Plath” is such a bold and original book that it confirms my conviction that we are only at the beginning of coming to terms with the poet’s biography. That may seem an astonishing ...

Plath didn’t let herself think lazily, and nor should we. Why can’t we challenge ourselves to wrestle with what she created while she was alive, rather than play her death on a loop?

Sylvia Plath often looked to the life and work of Virginia Woolf for inspiration. Plath did not dwell on Woolf’s suicide, and if she ever gave a thought to Woolf’s mother, Rachel Trethewey does not ...

Off the page, “The Bell Jar” is really Sylvia Plath’s story. Originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas (to spare her mother’s feelings), “The Bell Jar” would not ...

What does the metaphor of the bell jar reveal about the life and work of Sylvia Plath ’55? Associate Professor of Anthropology Colin Hoag and his students have been exploring that question in a ...