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Artist: Known — Illustrator for 'A Wrinkle in Time' gets long-overdue credit

The cover art for the 1976 paperback edition of Madeleine L'Engle's classic sci-fi/fantasy novel "A Wrinkle in Time" featuring a winged centaur and a glowering, red-eyed face is iconic. And yet, for nearly 50 years, no one has known who illustrated it. Well, not NO ONE. Not anymore. Endless Thread cracks the case! ....

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INDEPENDENT LENS: Storming Caesars Palace

Premieres Monday, March 20, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Meet activist Ruby Duncan, who led a grassroots movement of mothers who challenged presidents, the Vegas mob, and everyday Americans to fight for a universal basic income and rethink their notions of the "welfare queen." ....

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Lauren Willig's 'Band of Sisters': the story of ordinary women doing extraordinary things

Lauren Willig's 'Band of Sisters': the story of ordinary women doing extraordinary things
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Book Review: 'Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath,' by Heather Clark


By Heather Clark
What becomes a legend most? As suggested by the old black-and-white Blackglama fur ads, featuring Lena Horne, Diana Vreeland and Cher, among others, legends are people who have soared beyond fame or celebrity into a more rarefied, inaccessible stratosphere.
Today’s media-fixated, Kardashian-dominated world is filled with all sorts of legends, from the elevated to the base, but I can think of few poets who fit into this category. The exception is Sylvia Plath, who, with her perfect blond pageboy, wide smile and cinched-waist dresses, looked less like a proper poet and more like Doris Day.
By now, many of us are familiar with the rough outlines of her saga: the shining promise; the death of her adored father when she was 8; the titanic ambition and extraordinary persistence (in 1950, the summer before Plath started college and after more than 50 rejections, Seventeen magazine accepted her short story “And Summer Will Not Come Again”); the ....

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