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A Wealthy Donor to My University Just Silenced One of the World’s Leading Scholars of Genocide

A Wealthy Donor to My University Just Silenced One of the World’s Leading Scholars of Genocide

Emily Van Duyne on the Cowardice of Stockton University—and the Problem With For-Profit Higher Education

By Emily Van Duyne | August 11, 2026

Let Maggie Gyllenhaal Adapt <em>The Bell Jar</em>, You Cowards

Let Maggie Gyllenhaal Adapt The Bell Jar, You Cowards

Emily Van Duyne on the Promise of The Bride

By Emily Van Duyne | July 1, 2026

Emerald Fennell’s <em>Wuthering Heights</em> is a Deranged, Half-Assed Bodice-Ripper That Entirely Misses the Point

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a Deranged, Half-Assed Bodice-Ripper That Entirely Misses the Point

“Imagine a wealthy Oxbridge don giving their teenager a blank check for their Brontë Birthday Bash.”

By Emily Van Duyne | February 25, 2026

On Gaza, Assia Wevill, and Finding “Permission to Narrate” in a Time of Genocide

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

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

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

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Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

By Emily Van Duyne | November 9, 2022

The Impossible, Crucial Task of Teaching About Rape as a Survivor

By Emily Van Duyne | April 18, 2022

No One Gets Sylvia Plath

By Emily Van Duyne | November 6, 2020

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

Emily Van Duyne on Heather Clark's Red Comet

By Emily Van Duyne | October 29, 2020

Sylvia Plath and the Communion of Women Who Know What She Went Through

Sylvia Plath and the Communion of Women Who Know What She Went Through

Emily Van Duyne on the Lure of Charismatic, Abusive Men

By Emily Van Duyne | February 24, 2020

Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

It Would Be Easy to Write It Off—But We Shouldn't.

By Emily Van Duyne | January 24, 2019

What We Don't Know About Sylvia Plath

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?

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