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.

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

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 ...

The latest rereading of Sylvia Plath’s tragic life is a biographical take in which the author suggests a rare communion with her subject (Bettmann Archive/Getty) And in this latest book on ...

“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 ...

Innumerable dirty dishes were washed while I took it in. What Clark has done is provide a nearly day-by-day account of Plath’s activities—and instead of being boring, it’s riveting.

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 ...