In our age of distraction, the arts appear to be responding in kind, shrinking and streamlining themselves to capture what they can of our withering attention spans. Pop songs are down a full minute ...

Mountain quotes are a testament to the majesty and grandeur of these ... “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery.” -Sylvia Plath 13. “What are men to rocks and mountains?” – Jane Austen 14 ...

Books & the Arts / 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. Lynne Feeley In the ...

Lydia Plath grew up with eight siblings in a small house, so needless to say there was a constant battle for time in the ...

It is possible to open Sylvia Plath’s Ariel at almost any page and be struck by the force and the vigour of her language: the wholly original way she deploys verbs and asks us to re ...

To this day I am not quite sure whether I began by watching the water-voles, or whether it was the water-voles that began by watching me. I have a suspicion that a water-vole managed to spy me out ...

Lydia Plath is opening up about the accidental death of her brother Joshua. On the latest episode of The Jinger & Jeremy ...

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