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Louder · Jan 12, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Dec 27, 2023

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

The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2023

Goth connections that led to the Cure

From Sylvia Plath to Joy Division, the Cure co-founder examines the roots and impact of the oft-maligned subculture

Salon · Oct 28, 2023

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Ted Hughes, 25 years on: Now, more than ever, the poet is the voice for our times

The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his Shakespeare fixation was almost fatal; his first wife, Sylvia Plath, was certainly the Titania to his Oberon. With his almost psychic connection to nature and a charisma so powerful that even the Queen was rumoured to…

The Independent UK · Oct 28, 2023

I feel it in my fingers: Why more of us should start eating with our hands

Most of us in the West eat things like burgers or pastries with our hands, but around the world it’s far more common to eat ‘messy’ or ‘sticky’ items without a knife and fork, too. It could transform the way we enjoy food, writes Kate Ng

The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2023

But The Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu review – an impressive debut

This observant novel follows a young Malaysian Australian writer as she unpicks her preconceptions of an artist’s life, postcolonialism and Sylvia Plath

The Guardian - AU · Aug 24, 2023

Five Great Reads: conspiracy theorists, Russians in Tbilisi and loving Sylvia Plath

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - AU · Aug 11, 2023

'I had a sadomasochistic fascination with English': a vivid, playful debut disrupts clichés of docile Asian womanhood

Many contemporary novels adamantly refuse readers a pleasurable reading experience – with clunky prose and a cloying earnestness. But life’s too short for boring books.

The Conversation · Aug 2, 2023

How Depression Affects People Even at the Linguistic Level

From the way you move and sleep, to how you interact with people around you, depression changes just about everything.

Inverse · Jul 1, 2023

‘Definitely a lot busier’: TV show lures visitors to coin gang’s Yorkshire home

Associations with 18-century counterfeiters can be seen across Calderdale, where The Gallows Pole tourism has mainly been welcomed

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2023

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The Walrus · Jun 9, 2023

Does Journalling Actually Improve Mental Health?

Writing down your thoughts can be helpful. But getting the perfect notebook isn’t a substitute for professional care

The Hindu · May 11, 2023

Play on poet Sylvia Plath trains the spotlight on clinical depression

Sylvia, a play scripted and directed by Athira Nikathil, is an intimate portrayal of the life of American poet Sylvia Plath and her struggle with depression

The Guardian - UK · May 11, 2023

A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs review – on the shoulders of giants

The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce

Chicago Sun-Times · May 7, 2023

Chicago outdoors: Grape-eating robin, double-bearded turkey, mushrooms, Sylvia Plath

A grape-eating robin in Chicago, a double-bearded tom turkey spotted, and Sylvia Plath’s “Mushrooms” are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

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The Independent UK · Apr 29, 2023

‘It’s really strange to be reminded of your perpetually dead parents’: Frieda Hughes on her famous literary family and her magpie memoir George

The first memoir from Frieda Hughes tells the story of George, the magpie she adopted. The poet, painter and daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes tells Jessie Thompson of her plans to keep writing about her life

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2023

Menage a quatre: why most poetic biopics are romantic fiction

Director William Nunez describes why he focused on a time when the poet Robert Graves – best known for a memoir Goodbye to All That and historical novel I, Claudius – left his wife and family in pursuit of creativity at any cost

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2023

Max Porter: ‘Empower yourself to think carefully about men and masculinity’

As he releases his fourth novel, ‘Shy’, Max Porter talks to Patrick Sproull about the end of his ‘boyhood’ trilogy, sensitivity readers, and still reading Philip Roth and Ted Hughes

The Conversation · Mar 20, 2023

Girl, Interrupted interrogates how women are 'mad' when they refuse to conform – 30 years on, this memoir is still important

Thirty years ago, American writer Susanna Kaysen published her memoir Girl, Interrupted. It tells the story of her two years inside McLean Hospital in Boston as a psychiatric patient.

The Conversation · Feb 17, 2023

How Sylvia Plath's profound nature poetry elevates her writing beyond tragedy and despair

I cannot stop writing poems! … They come from the vocabulary of woods and animals and earth.

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2023

Poets’ dress code: what the clothes of Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde and Stevie Smith tell us about their inner lives

A new exhibition, dovetailing with the 60th anniversary of Plath’s death, showcases a skirt she wore to Paris in 1956, Smith’s collection of pristine shirt collars, and the symbolic asymmetric kaftan worn by Lorde after her mastectomy

The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2023

‘Her writing became a catalyst for my own’: the power of Sylvia Plath

On the 60th anniversary of Plath’s death, Emily Berry celebrates the poet’s vigour, brilliance and relatability

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