Sandra M. Gilbert

Sandra M. Gilbert is the author of nine books of poetry and of Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions. With Susan Gubar, she wrote The Madwoman in the Attic and Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1950-2020.

A Life Written in Invisible Ink

In her rebellious and much-celebrated poetry, Adrienne Rich both deciphered and created the feminist world she inhabited

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Tuesday September 6, 2016

Four Poems

Delicious poems from the paintings of four masters

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Monday December 7, 2015

Feast Your Eyes on This

What does the flurry for recent food movies say about our obsessions with all things culinary?

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Wednesday December 10, 2014

List, List, O List!

A Response to David Handlin’s “One Hundred Best American Novels”

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Thursday August 14, 2014

Circular Bread Line

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Sunday March 1, 2009

The Casserole Inquisition

Chronicles from America’s culinary transformation

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Saturday December 1, 2007

The Whirling Princess

How a little rich girl known as Pussy Jones became Edith Wharton, writing her way into the aristocracy of American letters

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Friday June 1, 2007

The Interdisciplinarian

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Tuesday September 5, 2023

Black Turtlenecks, Hoop Earrings

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Thursday August 12, 2021

The Madman in the Mansion

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Thursday January 14, 2021

Feminism’s First Think Tank

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Wednesday May 27, 2020
Lydia Davis

The Barber of Language

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Monday December 2, 2019

A Poet in Purgatory

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Tuesday September 4, 2018

A Poet of Glamour and Chaos

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Thursday October 12, 2017

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