http://dir.salon.com/topics/sylvia_plath/?source=rss&aim=sylvia_plath en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT By Rebecca Traister Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/03/23/nicholas_plath/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/03/23/nicholas_plath/index.html?source=rss "He had been battling depression for some time," says his sister, Freida Hughes. By Karen Maroda Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/11/29/plath_therapist/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/11/29/plath_therapist/index.html?source=rss Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse was therapist for the most famous, and famously troubled, poet of our time. Shortly before her own death, she agreed to speak about her treatment of Sylvia Plath, and the regrets that still haunted her decades after Plath's suicide. By Kamy Wicoff Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/14/middlebrook/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/14/middlebrook/index.html?source=rss Diane Middlebrook talks about why the marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes was a soaring success despite his infidelity and her suicide -- and why promising to be sexually faithful is folly. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/letters/2003/10/21/plath/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/letters/2003/10/21/plath/index.html?source=rss "No wonder people hate Americans -- we're vultures." Readers leap to the defense of Sylvia Plath's daughter. By Stephanie Zacharek Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2003/10/17/sylvia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2003/10/17/sylvia/index.html?source=rss Gwyneth Paltrow and director Christine Jeffs create a complex portrait of the legendary poet/suicide/heroine -- but this Lifetime-esque movie is too pretty and plays too safe. By Kate Moses Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2003/10/17/plath/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2003/10/17/plath/index.html?source=rss England's longest-running literary soap opera enters a new chapter, as Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes' daughter wages war against ghouls, obsessives and the makers of "Sylvia" (as well as novelists like me). By Laura Miller Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/05/13/suicide/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/05/13/suicide/index.html?source=rss A new book argues that suicide can be a rational response to an intolerable world -- and says that by medicalizing suicides, we rob them of their free will. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/audio/interview/2003/02/18/kate_moses/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/interview/2003/02/18/kate_moses/index.html?source=rss Laura Miller speaks with the author of "Wintering," a novel about Sylvia Plath. By Laura Miller Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/02/18/moses/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/02/18/moses/index.html?source=rss Novelist Kate Moses on her portrait of Sylvia Plath during the grim London winter when she changed literary history -- and then killed herself. By Sylvia Plath Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/plath_bell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/plath_bell/index.html?source=rss "The Bell Jar" Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/plath_sow/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/plath_sow/index.html?source=rss Plath reads her poems "Sow" and "On the Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad" By Sylvia Plath Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/plath/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/plath/index.html?source=rss "November Graveyard" and "Black Rook in Rainy Weather" By . Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/letters/daily/2000/06/06/plath/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/letters/daily/2000/06/06/plath/index.html?source=rss "There could be no greater tribute" By Kate Moses Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/06/01/plath2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/06/01/plath2/index.html?source=rss Her newly published, unexpurgated journals support a little-known theory that PMS drove her to suicide. Second of two parts. By Kate Moses Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/05/30/plath1/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/05/30/plath1/index.html?source=rss Her newly published, unexpurgated journals reveal the poet's true demons -- and support a little-known theory about what drove her to suicide. First of two parts. By Stewart O'Nan Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/bag/2000/03/27/onan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/bag/2000/03/27/onan/index.html?source=rss The author of "A Prayer for the Dying" picks five tales of creeping madness. By Craig Seligman Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2000/02/29/malcolm/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2000/02/29/malcolm/index.html?source=rss In her relentless pursuit of the truth she's left a few bodies in her wake, but isn't that part of a journalist's job? By Polly Shulman Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/wild/1999/08/25/tedhughes/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/wild/1999/08/25/tedhughes/index.html?source=rss In keeping with their authors' dark histories, "The Iron Giant" and other children's tales by Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath tell ominous fables about ambition, despair and people's disregard for nature and one another. By Curtis Sittenfeld Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/02/17/feature/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/02/17/feature/index.html?source=rss A judge of the Seventeen magazine fiction contest recalls what was endearing about the writers of the 400 stories she read --even the really bad ones. By Salon Magazine Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1998/10/30/30feature/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1998/10/30/30feature/index.html?source=rss A brief obituary of the British poet Ted Hughes, who died Wednesday Oct. 28, and links to Salon's glowing review of his last book of poems, 'Birthday Letters.' By Kate Moses Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/02/06/06featureb/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/02/06/06featureb/index.html?source=rss Ted Hughes' 'Birthday Letters' makes it clear, once and for all, whom his silence has been protecting all these years -- his children. By Jay Parini Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/02/06/cov_06featurea/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/02/06/cov_06featurea/index.html?source=rss Ted Hughes' long silence about his life with Sylvia Plath was considered by many as a sign that he did not care. But in "Birthday Letters," his book of brilliant, evocative poems about their life together, one begins to understand, for the first time, the nature of their love, and its tragic dimensions. By Christopher Hitchens Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1997/09/11/news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1997/09/11/news/index.html?source=rss From Elton John to William Blake, rhymes have been used -- and misused -- in the service of royalty.