Taylor Swift, the Sylvia Plath of her generation? Maggie Nelson has got this one wrong in The Slicks

There are plenty of curious ideas to pursue when examining the global phenomenon of Swift in 2025. The patriarchy hating ...
New York Sun

Sylvia Plath’s Biography: A Reckoning Finally Begins

“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 ...
The Boston Globe

A new look at Sylvia Plath focuses on her violent marriage

In “Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne focuses on Plath’s life and poetry as exemplars of the struggle for liberation from a patriarchal value system that celebrated marriage and motherhood as a ...
New York Sun

Sylvia Plath, Beekeeper, Mother, and Poet, Is Subject of a New Book for Young Readers

Sylvia Plath loved to draw, write poems, keep bees, and tend to her two children. That a poet has now brought together all elements of the writer’s life in a book for young readers that celebrates ...
WRAL

Sylvia Plath’s Life in Objects

For the many feminist critics who have excoriated Ted Hughes’ treatment of his first wife, Sylvia Plath, there was poetic justice of a sort in the auction of the poets’ belongings by their daughter, ...
The Nation

The Silencing of Sylvia Plath

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. A photograph of Sylvia Plath on her grave at St ...