But if the American cover winks at history, emphasizing who Plath would become then, as one critic notes, the British cover of The Letters of Sylvia Plath, is “sexualized and frivolous.”In the ...

This month sees the publication of The Letters of Sylvia Plath, a new collection of unpublished letters from the late poet and novelist. As is often the case, the book came with two different ...

In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book detailing the abuse that Plath suffered at the hands of her husband, the poet ...

Editor's note: This segment was broadcasted on July 20, 2023. Find that audio here. The new novel "The Last Confessions of Sylvia P." uses real and fictional people and events to explore the ...

The letters begin in 1940, when Plath was 8, with notes to her parents, Otto and Aurelia. They go on to document her youth in Wellesley, a quaint town outside Boston where she grew up in a “cozy ...

How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry ... to Feb. 4, 1963, Sylvia Plath wrote a series of 14 intensely personal letters to psychologist Ruth Beuscher.

Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath had a turbulent relationship. Evening Standard/Getty Images. As Clark explains in “Red Comet,” one day in early February 1961, Plath, who was four months pregnant ...

Reading the Plath-Beuscher letters and Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath, my lens of experience is being the mother of two very young children—one, a boy, of nearly identical age to Nicholas ...