William F. Buckley Jr. was the erudite heart of American conservatism. But the political vision that he helped forge was—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 this exquisite collection of travel dispatches, memoirist and novelist Taseer (The Dog of Tithwal) reflects on his relationship to place, what it means to be cut off from Continue reading ...

Vivid imagery and symbolism of deep human emotion are found throughout Plath’s novel, as the readers are allowed a look into the mind of a 19-year-old girl who is trapped in the kind of society ...

Welcome to the world of Sylvia Plath - the one who was always unapologetically real ... but lovingly so. Reading her poetry is like peeling an onion, there’s tons of layers and will find yourself ...

For those in need of a little pick-me-up, we’ve put together a list of inspirational book quotes to lift you back into good spirits! 1. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth ...

The era of dollar dominance might be coming to an end. But if not the dollar, which currency will be the backbone of the global economic system? @HowardJDavies weighs up the alternatives. Howard ...

poems, prose ‘and now her collected letters’, Hughes suggests, ‘my mother continues to exist’. The persona of this volume is sunny Sylvia rather than Lady Lazarus. In one letter to her mother, written ...

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