November 2024 Issue Fiona Sampson Changed in a Minute The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath By Peter K Steinberg (ed)
April 2000 Issue Pamela Norris Who Is Sylvia? The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950–1962 By Karen V Kukil (ed) LR
October 2018 Issue Sally Bayley Plath’s Passions The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II: 1956–1963 By Peter K Steinberg & Karen V Kukil (edd) LR
November 2017 Issue Elaine Showalter Sunny Sylvia The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I, 1940–1956 By Peter K Steinberg & Karen V Kukil (edd)
November 1988 Issue Edward Neill Barbie Doll With Brains Sylvia Plath: The Critical Heritage By Linda W Wagner (Ed) LR
July 2004 Issue Frances Wilson Testing Ted Her Husband: Hughes and Plath- A Marriage By Diane Middlebrook LR
December 2007 Issue Frances Wilson A Sketch in the Margin Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual By Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley (ed) LR
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