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On Gaza, Assia Wevill, and Finding “Permission to Narrate” in a Time of Genocide
Emily Van Duyne Reads Jamie Hood, Amie Souza Reilly, Zadie Smith, and Edward Said
By
Emily Van Duyne
| July 24, 2025
Believing Sylvia Plath: How Our Culture Continues to Blame the Victims of Male Violence
Emily Van Duyne on the Ways Misogyny Masks Itself and Slithers On, Then and Now
By
Emily Van Duyne
| July 11, 2024
Choosing to Bear Witness: Writing the Story of a Body
Emily Van Duyne on Emma Bolden’s
The Tiger and the Cage
By
Emily Van Duyne
| November 17, 2022
Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill
Emily Van Duyne’s Tribute to a “Lover of Unreason and an Exile”
By
Emily Van Duyne
| November 9, 2022
The Impossible, Crucial Task of Teaching About Rape as a Survivor
Emily Van Duyne on Navigating Stories that Institutions Ignore
By
Emily Van Duyne
| April 18, 2022
No One Gets Sylvia Plath
Emily Van Duyne on Loving, and Misunderstanding, an Icon
By
Emily Van Duyne
| November 6, 2020
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A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time
By
Emily Van Duyne
| October 29, 2020
Sylvia Plath and the Communion of Women Who Know What She Went Through
By
Emily Van Duyne
| February 24, 2020
Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story
By
Emily Van Duyne
| January 24, 2019
What We Don't Know About Sylvia Plath
On Revelations from a Chance Graveside Encounter
By
Emily Van Duyne
| January 22, 2019
Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word?
New Letters Alleging Abuse are Only Shocking if You Haven't Been Listening
By
Emily Van Duyne
| July 11, 2017
Your guide to transportation horror-cide
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by
John Hornor Jacobs
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by
Alex Dueben
My First thriller: Megan Abbott
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by
Rick Pullen
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"King captures her guileless sense of awe with just a dusting of parody that never…"