Topic: Sylvia Plath

0 . "A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black. . The great corollas dilate, peeling back their silks.". . Sylvia Plath's poem "The...

A Few Good Hurricane Poems

Don't fill in this field Book Think Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Tweet . Writing in The New Yorker's Book Bench this week, Macy Halford has curated a...
Getty Images/Thinkstock. . By Stacey May Fowles. . Lying awake early on a Saturday morning, it occurred to me that I have recently endured some of...

Stylemaker spotlight: Sasha Wingate

0 . It seems fitting that Sasha Wingate would name her Mission District boutique BellJar (3187 16th St.; www.shopbelljarsf.com). "After 10 years...
Sylvia Plath was born 27 October, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of a German immigrant professor who died when she was eight. " During the interview, Sylvia Plath read out her poem, "Lady Lazarus," in a cold, detached voice.. The most fearfully ...

Nicholas Hughes

Nicholas Hughes was the son of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath . His mother, Sylvia Plath, had herself committed suicide when Nicholas was one year old. Nicholas Hughes, Sylvia Plath's son, commits suicide (March 23, 2009) When Hughes was still an ...

Genetic Screening Issues

If we as a society decide to engage in genetic screening, we have to decide which traits are desirable and which are not. Down?s Syndrome has children; almost none of those with very low IQ reproduce. That eliminates, among others, Virginia ...

Roundup of poetry books

0 View Larger Image . This autumn offers readers a cornucopia of poetry, variegated in style and quality. Among the best books is Kamau ...
Does your teen love to look like Avril Lavigne with dark, thick kohl under their eyes, listening to Evanescence, reading Sylvia Plath, and doing everything to look morbid? They conform to their friends. Know and accept their friends. You might even influence ...
In a cool new interactive map, The New York Times plots out (oh, yeah, we went there) the locations mentioned in literature, from Babar's visit to...