Sylvia Plath

Vanessa Wye was fifteen when she first had sex with her English teacher, Jacob Strane. At thirty-two, some of Strane’s students come forward to accuse him of abuse, something that horrifies Vanessa. She doesn’t remember him abusing her.…

Lana Del Rey has just released her latest single, the fantastically titled ‘hope is dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it’. With a host of lyrical references to everything from Sylvia Plath to the iPad, the track is…

Nat Newman set herself the challenge of only reading women writers for a year. Here she talks about her experience and how it changed and enriched her reading habits for good. A few years ago, on this very site, I announced that I…

"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one." Kazuo Ishiguro The Lit Review has been off living its life but now it's back with all your literary news and truths... News Dublin One City One Book The Dublin…

New York City may be a little full of itself. It may be the tiniest bit arrogant. It may even be a loudmouth narcissist strutting around like the world is its catwalk. But it’s not easy to keep round-the-clock flattery from going to your…

Let me ask you a question that you don't have to answer. Have you ever had a boyfriend who was really nice and really considerate, but with whom the sex was nonetheless not really amazing because he had a habit of doing things like…

Victoria Kennefick's poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry (Chicago), The Stinging Fly, New Irish Writing, Bare Fiction, The Penny Dreadful, And Other Poems and elsewhere. She won the Red Line Book Festival Poetry Prize…

It’s time to get down and dirty with Child by Sylvia Plath. You may have had it forced upon you in school and if you haven’t had it forced upon you then you can read it here. YAWN – THE KNOWN INTERPRETATION Child by Sylvia Plath is a…

I chose Sylvia Plath as a Legend of the Month for HeadStuff because of Mirror. For those of you who know nothing about Sylvia Plath, she didn't invent the mirror. But imagine if she did? That would be so cool and she might be a Legend of…