In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of ...

Think of any “sad girl” in a film. You know the one: she wears baggy jeans and band T-shirts, slams doors and sits alone in canteens. And she’s almost always reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia ...

Wheeler’s novel traces the progression of a romance that at times seems too good to be true, at others bewilderingly futile.

We were promised a summer of love, so why are so many of us describing the current mood as ‘sad girl summer’? Don’t get me wrong: I knew I wouldn’t wake up on 21 June to a whole new Covid ...

Despite her recent success, like many female artists who write personal, confessional songs about love, relationships and loss, Abrams is often condemned to the “sad-girl pop” label and criticized on ...

How can lyrics like “If he’s a serial killer, then what’s the worst that can happen to a girl who’s already hurt” and “You’re beautiful, and I’m insane, we are American made ...

It is being labelled as part of a trend for “sad girl novels” . This rising genre brings together a long tradition of women's literary fiction that trades in melancholy, introspection and ...