Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Provided by Harper "The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume 1: 1940-1956" By Sylvia Plath. Edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil By Paul Alexander, ...

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 ...

This month sees the publication of The Letters of Sylvia Plath, a new collection of unpublished letters from the late poet and novelist.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 covers ...

A popular form of writing nowadays is one that involves reexamining the lives of people, often members of marginalized groups, who have otherwise been flattened or short-changed by history. How has ...

Headlining Bonhams’s rare books and manuscripts auction, items from the estate of writer Sylvia Plath and her poet husband Ted Hughes outperformed a host of literary stars on the way to a sales total ...

A few years ago, I interned at the Poetry Foundation, where I digitally archived and organized many of the historic documents that Poetry magazine had obtained in a hundred years’ of existence: ...

This is an edition of the revamped Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Her approach is granular, in a word. I actually listened to Red Comet as an ...

A rare proof of Sylvia Plath’s novel “The Bell Jar” is coming up for auction in England. Bonhams will auction the uncorrected proof of the book, printed before publication, on June 24. The proof of ...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. I'm very intrigued by the focus on Sylvia Plath. Can you share a bit more about how she plays into the book? Sure. My ...

A popular form of writing nowadays is one that involves reexamining the lives of people, often members of marginalized groups, who have otherwise been flattened or short-changed by history. How has ...