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Sylvia Plath’s life should fascinate us far more than her death
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoState of the Arts: How do we fix the way we think about Sylvia Plath? Ninety years since her birth,...
‘Swifterature:’ Belgian university launches course to analyze Taylor Swift lyrics
CNN via Yahoo News· 9 months agoPoetry, prose and now songwriting: Ghent University in Belgium is launching a new literature course...
The Patient review: Disney Plus drama takes its killer premise to interesting places
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt’s a cliché to say that a TV show has a “killer premise”, and it’s doubly clichéd to make that...
Voices: How Barbie made me rethink my views on pink
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 months agoI have a confession (whisper it): I have a newfound love of pink. It’s so “off brand” for me – I am a self-identifying “sad girl”, most often seen in...
‘It’s really strange to be reminded of your perpetually dead parents’: Frieda Hughes on her famous...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoINTERVIEW: The first memoir from Frieda Hughes tells the story of George, the magpie she adopted....
Ted Hughes, 25 years on: Now, more than ever, the poet is the voice for our times
The Independent via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMCCRUM ON BOOKS: The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his...
The meaning behind the name of Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department
The Independent via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoTaylor Swift will release a brand new album of original material this week. The Tortured Poets...
This writer loves feminist 'art monsters' — but thinks 'cancel culture is destructive'
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThere came a point when Lauren Elkin realized her book-in-progress was becoming a blob. As the writer Chris Kraus defines it: “the book as Blob, swallowing and engorging … Unwise and unstoppable ...
How Janet Malcolm, at death's door, finally took on her toughest subject — herself
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAfter Janet Malcolm died in June 2021, the announcement that she still had a book in the works was...
Why Safiya Sinclair cut her dreadlocks and wrote a memoir of pain and poetry
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSafiya Sinclair was raised to be Rastafari; instead, she became a poet. Why it took her more than a decade to write the lyrical memoir 'How to Say Babylon'