When Esther Greenwood starts her internship at a New York fashion magazine, it seems to be the threshold to an exciting future: life in the beguiling big city, daredevil men, heated dinners and dance evenings. But her view of the world begins to falter, begins to lurch - and opens up to a darkness in which everything seems increasingly unreal to her. 60 years ago, the American first edition of The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's only novel, was published - shortly afterwards she took her own life. The novel soon became a cult book, as it described the inner turmoil of a young woman and the dynamics of mental illness like never before. In this issue, Plath's novel and Beya Rebaï's illustrations now unite to form a total work of art. New product