The author on taking solace in Joan Didion, discovering Donna Tartt and being cheered up by David Sedaris ...

In a special section on 1950s culture, Maria Farland discusses Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and its role in the anti-psychiatry movement. In writing the 1963 novel, “Plath made deliberate use of the ...

A copy of The Bell Jar has gathered dust on my bookshelf for at least a decade—that old Bantam paperback, with a black-gloved, feminine hand and a dark, dying rose melodramatically unfurling on the ...

Planning a movie night with 'The Bell Jar' on your favorite screen? Searching for where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to stream or rent the -helmed movie can be more complicated than expected ...

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