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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in June

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

‘A literary event’: Sylvia Plath memorabilia can fetch as much as $1m. A new book reveals a treasure trove of material

The task of understanding Sylvia Plath as a writer is intimidating. Her archives are vast. They span countries and colleges, and have varying levels of access and availability. Studying her oeuvre in its entirety requires years of research and travel.

The Conversation

New research shows people can’t tell the difference between human and AI poetry – and even prefer the latter. What gives?

Here are some lines Sylvia Plath never wrote:

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Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake review – a writer’s place is not in the kitchen

A fun but often unpalatable collection of recipes by authors including Robert Graves, Norman Mailer and Beryl Bainbridge should come with a trigger warning. Anyone for Instant Mince or Dutch Onion Crisps?

The Guardian - UK

Explicit novel Icebreaker is under fire for its ‘misleading’ cover. A book designer explains – and reveals how covers work

Primary school students have been reading TikTok sensation Icebreaker, an enemies-to-lovers romance about a figure skater and an ice hockey player. The cartoon cover features a ponytailed girl (who looks to be in her tweens) in a sparkly purple costume, smiling up at a much taller boy holding a hockey…

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Hannah Gavron: The pioneering 1960s feminist you’ve never heard of who still has lessons for modern women

When Daisy Boulton stumbled across ‘A Woman on the Edge of Time’, a son’s book exploring the life and suicide of his mother, she felt an overwhelming connection. Helen Coffey talks to her about the new musical it inspired, and takes a deep dive into the story of a woman…

The Independent UK

Can you face Frank Paul’s fiendish summer quiz?

A set of cunning quizzes from the former Only Connect champion and the author of The Cryptic Pub Quiz Book. You might need a pen and paper …

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‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’: 15 of the most iconic book covers

From ‘The Great Gatsby’ to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, Finn Cliff Hodges looks at the best covers out there

The Independent UK

My debut novel is about the female experience – please don’t reduce it to a ‘sad girl’ cliché

As Olivia Petter publishes ‘Gold Rush’, she explains why she won’t be applying literature’s most annoying trope to her work, even if others might try to

The Independent UK

Reading Plath and my friend's Instagram

We were Plath Girls in our youth. Claiming her was a way to elevate our teenage sadness from cliché to literary

Salon

'AI Bullshit' Makes Poets Mad

Is AI-written poetry cheating if you laboriously trained the AI?

Reason

25 of the best poetry books to read in 2025

Delve into the hypnotic world of lyrical literature

Evening Standard

Poem of the week: Holidaying with Dad During the Divorce by Jessica Traynor

A teenager struggles to absorb her parents’ emotional disarray as their marriage falls apart

The Guardian - UK

Is there an upside to insomnia?

Insomnia fueled some of the greatest art women have ever produced, but the darkness can also come with a price

Salon

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Evening Standard

Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2024

Ingenious storytelling in 300 pages or less

Evening Standard

21 of the Greatest American novels that everyone should read

From historical classics to postmodern marvels

The Guardian - UK

David Compton obituary

Science fiction writer whose novel foreseeing reality TV was adapted as Bertrand Tavernier’s film Death Watch

Louder

“We wrote a postscript which gives the listener the chance to choose their own end to the story… continue the cycle or give the character up to the sea”: iamthemorning’s path to Lighthouse

Chamber music duo’s Marjana Semkina on the poetry and suicide spots that inspired their third album

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The Guardian - UK

Christina Britzolakis obituary

Other lives: English lecturer at Warwick University who wrote a book analysing the writing of Sylvia Plath

The Guardian - UK

Dolly Alderton: ‘In an emergency, I turn to Bridget Jones’

The journalist and author on meeting Nick Hornby, siding with Sylvia Plath, and finding comfort in cookery books

Salon

Goth connections that led to the Cure

From Sylvia Plath to Joy Division, the Cure co-founder examines the roots and impact of the oft-maligned subculture

The Independent UK

Ted Hughes, 25 years on: Now, more than ever, the poet is the voice for our times

The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his Shakespeare fixation was almost fatal; his first wife, Sylvia Plath, was certainly the Titania to his Oberon. With his almost psychic connection to nature and a charisma so powerful that even the Queen was rumoured to…

The Independent UK

I feel it in my fingers: Why more of us should start eating with our hands

Most of us in the West eat things like burgers or pastries with our hands, but around the world it’s far more common to eat ‘messy’ or ‘sticky’ items without a knife and fork, too. It could transform the way we enjoy food, writes Kate Ng

The Guardian - AU

But The Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu review – an impressive debut

This observant novel follows a young Malaysian Australian writer as she unpicks her preconceptions of an artist’s life, postcolonialism and Sylvia Plath

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: conspiracy theorists, Russians in Tbilisi and loving Sylvia Plath

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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