Sylvia Plath

Then There Were No Witnesses: Ahilan’s poetry bears powerful testimony to Sri Lankan civil war

Almost through the thirty years of the civil war, Ahilan wrote poetry that now serves as witnesses to the various phases of war and its aftermath.

Anju Dodiya on art, empathy and her latest exhibition, The Air Is A Mill Of Hooks

In her 17th solo show, titled ‘The Air is a Mill of Hooks’, Anju Dodiya examines the space within which Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Mystic’ — that gives the exhibition its name — was born | #FirstCulture

Anju Dodiya's The Air Is A Mill Of Hooks explores Sylvia Plath's poetry, role of women

In her 17th solo show, titled ‘The Air is a Mill of Hooks’, Anju Dodiya steps outside the body and examines the space within which poet Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Mystic’ — which gives the exhibition its name — was born

On the 85th birth anniversary of Sylvia Plath, a look at some of her stirring verses

Sylvia Plath won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems in 1982.

Sylvia Plath's unpublished letters alleging Ted Hughes of domestic abuse found

In these letters, Sylvia Plath says that Ted Hughes wanted her dead and that he beat her shortly before she had a miscarriage.

The Namesake's Gogol, Roald Dahl's Matilda and other literary heroes who deserve a comeback

Here are five iconic literary characters with whom we’d like to go back to the future.