“The Bell Jar,” Plath’s semi-autobiographical account of the psychological unraveling of a talented college student, is so political in places that it almost seems the mirror image of “The ...

Esther’s bell jar is lifted, and she is alive — her life is uncertain and imperfect, but her plans are “flamboyant.” Despite Plath’s fate off the page, ...

Inside The Bell Jar: “I remember Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently, I wouldn’t want to write poems anymore.

To our reviewer, the poet’s novel was “the kind of book Salinger’s Franny might have written about herself 10 years later, if she had spent those 10 years in Hell.” ...

It’s Time We Had A Talk About “The Bell Jar,” the White Feminist, Racist Literary Icon White feminists perpetuate racism through fetishization, erasure and outright mockery, three issues ...

A glance at the recent issue of The Minnesota Review: The anti-psychiatry movement and The Bell JarIn a special section on 1950s culture, Maria Farland discusses Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and ...