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.

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 ...

On the song Cut My Hair, you say you got bored of being a "sad girl", always "singing the same old things". It's funny because, obviously, you have to accept all your old work, but I'm also ...

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 ...