Known by most for The Bell Jar–and her depression–Sylvia Plath was a prolific and productive writer. She was also an early advocate of leaning in. Here’s a look at how she worked. Plath battled the ...

There are books that I am never really through with, and Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” is one. I always know exactly where it ...

Sylvia Plath devotees, this news should get your nose out of your poem books and have you eagerly awaiting something on the big screen. As reported by Deadline on Wednesday, a film adaptation of Plath ...

In a special section on 1950s culture, Maria Farland discusses Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and its role in the anti-psychiatry movement. In writing the 1963 novel, “Plath made deliberate use of the ...

For her feature directorial debut, Dunst is taking on the beloved Sylvia Plath classic. Here's why she's perfect for it. In the spring of 1999, Sofia Coppola’s feature directorial debut, a big screen ...

The Bell Jar is being adapted for the big screen with Kirsten Dunst as the director and Dakota Fanning rumored to star. On the one hand, that's amazing news for fans of Sylvia Plath's classic novel, ...

Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar is a masterpiece — and one of my favorite books. The novel, loosely based on Plath's own life, is about Esther Greenwood, whose descent into mental illness eerily ...

A copy of The Bell Jar has gathered dust on my bookshelf for at least a decade—that old Bantam paperback, with a black-gloved, feminine hand and a dark, dying rose melodramatically unfurling on the ...

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 ...

There is a reason it is a modern classic and an enduring rite of passage for generations of women. Emily Van Duyne, Plath expert and author of the upcoming book “Loving Sylvia Plath” explains that the ...