A 1954 portrait of Sylvia Plath after she dyed her hair dark brown to accentuate her “serious, intellectual side.” Credit: PHOTO BY Warren Kay Vantine/courtesy Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith ...
Poets we lost recently (clockwise from top left): Jayanta Mahapatra, Keki Daruwalla, Gieve Patel, Saleem Peeradina. Yet, apart from Nissim Ezekiel, whose authorised biography I published in 2000 ...
It is not often that the name of Enid Blyton, the bestselling children’s author, is mentioned in the same breath or the same sentence as literary giants, such as Homer, Virgil or Dante. The reason for ...