When I put myself in the shoes of the woman sitting atop the fig tree, I see so many things I want to accomplish. Sylvia Plath would have been 90 years old if she was still alive today. How much ...

Plath writes in the book that “wherever I sat — on the deck of a ship or at a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok — I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.” ...

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, Paul ...

LOVING SYLVIA PLATH: A Reclamation. By Emily Van Duyne. Norton, 336 pages, $27.99. Wendy Smith is the author of ...

Sylvia Plath left behind a complicated legacy. Contemporary writers influenced by her work must juggle inspiration with some problematic imagery – as a poetry expert explains.

Their findings are on display in an exhibit created in collaboration with the Botanic Garden of Smith College that opens September 15 in Lyman Plant House and Conservatory. The Bell Jars: Lyman ...

THE BELL JARS: Lyman Conservatory and Sylvia Plath’s Botanical Imagination. At Lyman Plant House and Conservatory, 16 College Lane, Northampton. Through June 28. 413-585-2742, ...