It's 50 years ago today that Sylvia Plath lost her life-long battle with depression, and took her own life. Since then her reputation as a poet has...

By now you may have heard about publisher Faber's new book cover for The Bell Jar, and the fact a lot of people aren't exactly thrilled with it. Th...

Today would have been Sylvia Plath's 80th birthday. As she shares it with Dylan Thomas, we spent a little while imagining what kind of joint birthday ...

Again and again, praise for a work of art, an artistic or political performance is based on judgement of a work or person's sincerity - the assumption...

Churning out inspirational quotes about writing has been a favourite past time of authors and poets throughout the ages. Like many creative types, ...

We all know about the insanity that Van Gogh, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath lived with, and we perhaps are guilty of believing their work is made more beautiful because of our knowledge of their suffering. However I tend to wonder if we overlook the integrity of such works in light of their illness, and how condescending this really is.

There are a fair few authors who see their first novel published and think: “what shall I write next?” They come back for more, like addicts, publ...