There are many possible lives we could live but the use of Plath’s fig analogy to explore this idea is not quite right.

A new look at Sylvia Plath focuses on her violent marriage The Boston-born poet’s 1963 suicide cut short a brilliant career. By Wendy Smith Globe correspondent, Updated July 9, 2024, 12:30 p.m.

In “ Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne doesn’t aim to compete directly with Clark or with the long roster of Plath’s previous biographers, including Edward Butscher, Ronald Hayman ...