Janet Malcolm, who died on June 16, 2021, typically referred to herself as a journalist. While that’s certainly an honorable occupation — and working for The New Yorker, she often kept up a journalist ...

In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been made public, included a startling revelation: Plath suggested that her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was responsible for the ...

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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 ...

Heather Clark’s massive, ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath, “Red Comet,” published in 2020, might have seemed like the last word on the poet’s mercurial life and tragic death. But more than six ...

In March 1963, a month after the suicide of his estranged wife, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes wrote an anguished letter to her mother, Aurelia. “I don’t ever want to be forgiven,” he wrote about his role ...

There is Eliot. And Pound. Shakespeare. Whitman. There are Cather, Wharton, and Rich. And then there is Sylvia. Or sometimes Sylvia-and-Ted, or even Sylvia-and-Ted’s-marriage, which by now is as much ...

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, ...

Even if you have read every biography of Assia Wevill, Ted Hughes, and Sylvia Plath, this revisionist account of all three will startle you. Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, author of the excellent ...