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Terry Castle is the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford. Her artworks can be seen on her blog, Fevered Brain Productions. Her most recent book is The Professor and Other Writings.
The Unbearable
On the fiftieth anniversary of her suicide, new biographies of Sylvia Plath
Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted
by Andrew Wilson
American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath
by Carl Rollyson
July 11, 2013 issue
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