Sylvia Plath
To the End of the World by Rupert Everett review – a delightful writer on modern fame
Chatting up Thierry Henry, being sick on Colin Firth ... and the saga of an obsession with Oscar Wilde, told in this third memoir with Everett’s usual seductive style
Hadley Freeman
07, Oct, 2020 @6:30 AM
Anne Stevenson obituary
Poet and Plath biographer who explored a wide world of thought and feeling
Jay Parini
18, Sep, 2020 @10:47 AM
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke obituary
Other lives: Poet whose work was widely admired not only in her homeland of Greece but across Europe and the US
Kieran Cooke
05, Mar, 2020 @5:26 PM
Top 10 books about loneliness | Fay Bound Alberti
At what can be one of the loneliest times of year, a historian of emotionpicks the best books about a modern malady
Fay Bound Alberti
25, Dec, 2019 @9:00 AM
Al Alvarez obituary
Writer, critic and poetry editor of the Observer best known for The Savage God, a meditation on literary suicide
John Sutherland
23, Sep, 2019 @5:11 PM
Faber & Faber: by Toby Faber review – the untold story of a publishing giant
They turned down Ulysses and Animal Farm, but still shaped 20th‑century literature
John Mullan
20, Jun, 2019 @11:00 AM
As Sylvia Plath knew, if you’re going to be a victim, you’d better be a good one | Emma Brockes
A woman must now be able to appear not just credible but attractive enough to invite empathy, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
Emma Brockes
01, Nov, 2018 @4:48 PM
How Shakespeare's 'blood cult’ became Ted Hughes’s fatal obsession
He believed he’d found the secret key to unlock all of Shakespeare’s work. Twenty years after Hughes’s death, this is the story of the lifelong fixation he feared would destroy him
Robert McCrum
27, Oct, 2018 @12:00 PM
Unseen Sylvia Plath short story to be published in January
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom was written in 1952, when Plath was still as student in the US
Richard Lea
26, Oct, 2018 @2:32 PM
Daddy cool? Why pop is obsessed with bad dads
To mark 10 years since Glasvegas released Daddy’s Gone, we explore the failing fathers of pop, from Flight of the Conchords to Madonna
Gavin Haynes
12, Oct, 2018 @11:59 AM
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II: 1956-1963 – review
Infidelity, agony, rage … Plath’s correspondence captures life with Ted Hughes and her terror of being alive
Elizabeth Lowry
19, Sep, 2018 @8:00 AM
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II: 1956-1963 – review
A second hefty tome of Sylvia Plath’s letters is striking only for the poet’s extraordinary correspondence with her psychiatrist
Rachel Cooke
09, Sep, 2018 @5:59 AM
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