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Sylvia Plath
March 20, 2023
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Sam Adler-Bell
Janet Malcolm’s Dangerous Method
In her journalism, Malcolm offered devastating portraits of artists, analysts, and frauds. She dreaded receiving the same treatment.
February 23, 2021
Magazine
Maggie Doherty
How the Barbizon Hotel Defined Women’s Ambition
Grace Kelly, Joan Didion, and Sylvia Plath were all guests. For some women, it was a launch pad. For others, it was a trap.
February 26, 2019
Tal Lavin
Age of Anxiety
America seems to be in the midst of a full-blown panic attack. Is there anything we can do about it?
December 8, 2017
Magazine
Michelle Dean
The Company She Kept
Elizabeth Hardwick’s argumentative life among the New York Intellectuals
June 4, 2014
Kelsey Osgood
Why We Don’t Like Stories in Which the Mentally Ill Heroine Recovers
The surprisingly stable afterlife of the author of 'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'
February 11, 2014
William H. Pritchard
Was Sylvia Plath Just A "Minor Poet"?
October 1, 2012
Hillary Kelly
The Five Types of Amazon Critic
July 14, 2010
Ruth Franklin
The READ: You Wouldn’t Like Her Angry
May 3, 2004
Robert Brustein
Reality Theater
December 18, 2000
Zoë Heller
Ariel's Appetite
December 9, 1978
Joyce Carol Oates
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May 8, 1971
Saul Maloff
Waiting for the Voice to Crack
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