Sylvia Plath lived a tragically short life ... “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree,” she writes in the novel in a beloved section. “One fig was a husband and a happy home ...

In her poem "The Mirror," Sylvia Plath portrays the complexity of the struggle of the imposter, the struggle to be oneself.

Sylvia Plath’s writing was witty, political, emotional and sharp. A substantial new collection includes more than 50 ...

"The Mirror," a poem by Sylvia Plath, is about a woman looking in the mirror and evaluating the image she sees there. In the poem, Plath explores the mirror image as a doorway to the unconscious ...

Pruning a fig tree annually is the gardener's secret to maintaining a happy and healthy tree. It promotes fruit production and new growth, keeps the tree at a manageable size, and enhances overall ...

Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

Soheila Golestani, the Iranian actor who stars in Mohammad Rasoulof’s Oscar-nominated drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” has been banned from leaving Iran to serve on the Tiger Competition ...

Ted Hughes once suggested that his romance with Sylvia Plath dominated his university years, forthrightly beginning a poem with the line “Cambridge was our Courtship.” To assume Plath felt the same is ...

The title of the film, referencing the sacred fig tree that spreads by choking another, serves as a potent metaphor for the suffocating theocratic regime in Iran. Rasoulof’s bold decision to ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...