The American publication of Sylvia Plath’s unabridged journals provides a more well-rounded and nuanced portrait of the famously despairing poet. “Sometimes Plath comes across as a boy-crazy Cosmo girl, Sometimes as a willful narcissist. What is perhaps most striking about these journals, however, is their depiction of Plath’s embrace of ordinary life and her haunting knowledge that her psychological well-being depended upon her remaining anchored to ‘some external reality.’” – New York Times