Tag: sylvia-plath

  • Pat Lowther and Sylvia Plath: Back to the Archives

    Cover image of Faber’s forthcoming edition of The Poems of Sylvia Plath, edited by Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil. Because I write about crime fiction most of the time, I’m acutely conscious when I’m writing about real-life tragedies linked to literary figures that this is a very different matter. There is real suffering and…

  • On Still Not Knowing Greek, Alice Munro, and Theresa Kishkan

    Illness, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath I’m re-reading Virginia Woolf this week: To the Lighthouse, and some letters and re-edited journals, with a dip into Quentin Bell’s early 1970s and rather severe biography for additional context. Bell is, of course, Woolf’s nephew, and I came to his biography back in high school, before I read…