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Fungi: Anarchist Designers review – a perverse plunge into mushroom mayhem, from stinkhorns to zombie-makers

They have poisoned emperors, taken over insect brains and survived atomic bombs. This Dantean journey through fungal hell is riveting – though frogs may disagree

The Guardian - UK

From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers

Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets nothing in the way of royalties’, show authors at their most vulnerable

The Guardian - UK

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

READING LIST: There are plenty of curious ideas to pursue when examining the global phenomenon of Swift in 2025. The patriarchy hating prolific female artists in a pop world dominated by women doesn’t feel like one of them, writes Hannah Ewens

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‘Ambition is a punishing sphere for women’: author Maggie Nelson on why Taylor Swift is the Sylvia Plath of her generation

What do Swift and Plath have in common, and should Kamala Harris have spoken out about her political ambitions? The Argonauts author turns her lens on poetry, pop and patriarchy

The Guardian - UK

Oisin Murphy: ‘I found escapism but also an awful lot of trouble in the bottle’

The champion jockey tells Donald McRae about his pursuit of sobriety, his April car crash, a voracious need to win – and the poetry of Sylvia Plath

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in June

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

‘A literary event’: Sylvia Plath memorabilia can fetch as much as $1m. A new book reveals a treasure trove of material

The task of understanding Sylvia Plath as a writer is intimidating. Her archives are vast. They span countries and colleges, and have varying levels of access and availability. Studying her oeuvre in its entirety requires years of research and travel.

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New research shows people can’t tell the difference between human and AI poetry – and even prefer the latter. What gives?

Here are some lines Sylvia Plath never wrote:

The Conversation

Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake review – a writer’s place is not in the kitchen

A fun but often unpalatable collection of recipes by authors including Robert Graves, Norman Mailer and Beryl Bainbridge should come with a trigger warning. Anyone for Instant Mince or Dutch Onion Crisps?

The Guardian - UK

Explicit novel Icebreaker is under fire for its ‘misleading’ cover. A book designer explains – and reveals how covers work

Primary school students have been reading TikTok sensation Icebreaker, an enemies-to-lovers romance about a figure skater and an ice hockey player. The cartoon cover features a ponytailed girl (who looks to be in her tweens) in a sparkly purple costume, smiling up at a much taller boy holding a hockey…

The Conversation

Hannah Gavron: The pioneering 1960s feminist you’ve never heard of who still has lessons for modern women

When Daisy Boulton stumbled across ‘A Woman on the Edge of Time’, a son’s book exploring the life and suicide of his mother, she felt an overwhelming connection. Helen Coffey talks to her about the new musical it inspired, and takes a deep dive into the story of a woman…

The Independent UK

Can you face Frank Paul’s fiendish summer quiz?

A set of cunning quizzes from the former Only Connect champion and the author of The Cryptic Pub Quiz Book. You might need a pen and paper …

The Guardian - UK

‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’: 15 of the most iconic book covers

From ‘The Great Gatsby’ to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, Finn Cliff Hodges looks at the best covers out there

The Independent UK

My debut novel is about the female experience – please don’t reduce it to a ‘sad girl’ cliché

As Olivia Petter publishes ‘Gold Rush’, she explains why she won’t be applying literature’s most annoying trope to her work, even if others might try to

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Salon

Reading Plath and my friend's Instagram

We were Plath Girls in our youth. Claiming her was a way to elevate our teenage sadness from cliché to literary

Reason

'AI Bullshit' Makes Poets Mad

Is AI-written poetry cheating if you laboriously trained the AI?

Evening Standard

25 of the best poetry books to read in 2025

Delve into the hypnotic world of lyrical literature

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: Holidaying with Dad During the Divorce by Jessica Traynor

A teenager struggles to absorb her parents’ emotional disarray as their marriage falls apart

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Salon

Is there an upside to insomnia?

Insomnia fueled some of the greatest art women have ever produced, but the darkness can also come with a price

Evening Standard

Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2024

Ingenious storytelling in 300 pages or less

Evening Standard

21 of the Greatest American novels that everyone should read

From historical classics to postmodern marvels

The Guardian - UK

David Compton obituary

Science fiction writer whose novel foreseeing reality TV was adapted as Bertrand Tavernier’s film Death Watch

Louder

“We wrote a postscript which gives the listener the chance to choose their own end to the story… continue the cycle or give the character up to the sea”: iamthemorning’s path to Lighthouse

Chamber music duo’s Marjana Semkina on the poetry and suicide spots that inspired their third album

The Guardian - UK

Christina Britzolakis obituary

Other lives: English lecturer at Warwick University who wrote a book analysing the writing of Sylvia Plath

The Guardian - UK

Dolly Alderton: ‘In an emergency, I turn to Bridget Jones’

The journalist and author on meeting Nick Hornby, siding with Sylvia Plath, and finding comfort in cookery books

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