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

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 ...

Sylvia Plath lived all of 30 years. But one of the most significant moments — for her life and, as it turned out, for literature — spanned a mere month, June 1953, when she was 20. But Winder ...

Peter K. Steinberg works to change the narrative around Sylvia Plath, highlighting her achievements and skill as a writer of prose.

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.

Loving Sylvia Plath, subtitled “A Reclamation”, by Emily Van Duyne, is a case study from this genre, a bold and idiosyncratic volume that takes the traditional reader of Ariel into a world of ...

“Loving Sylvia Plath” is such a bold and original book that it confirms my conviction that we are only at the beginning of coming to terms with the poet’s biography. That may seem an astonishing ...

In Emily Van Duhn's 'Loving Sylvia Plath,' a new look at the poet's brief life and violent marriage.

But “Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation” should be seen as supplementary material for those seeking to better understand the circumstances surrounding her final years.

Sylvia Plath Once Said, 'Opinions are Like Orgasms … Mine Matters Most'? The attribution of the quote to Plath began as a Tumblr joke.