The mother of so much: Sylvia Plath was the first poet to write great poetry about childbirth. Her suicide at the age of 30 made her a legend, but she left a legacy far richer than the story of her tragic death. [Guardian]
Georges Simenon, the existential hack: Paul Theroux on Maigret’s creator, the Balzac of blighted lives, who was confident of winning the Nobel Prize. [TLS]
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