important works of confessional writing include Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, a roman à clef of Plath's descent into depression and suicide attempts whilst interning for Mademoiselle magazine. The novel blends elements of fiction and non-fiction within the parameters of the confessional genre, by representing real people and events through a fictive façade: Mademoiselle magazine is replaced with the fictional Ladies' Day magazine, and Plath's own experience is surrogated by the protagonist, Esther Greenwood's perspective. Plath also initially published the novel under the pseudonym, 'Victoria Lucas.' More recent works of confessional writing include Codeine Diary, by Tom Andrews, a personal account of living with the disease haemophilia; Girlhood, by Melissa Febos, an account of the development of the female body from adolescence into adulthood, and of the narrativity of the socially-constructed experience of femininity; Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino¸ a confessional blend of personal essay and social criticism concerning the rise of the internet during the 1990s and early 2000s, as well as the fallacious digital identities which social media is productive of; Before I Say Goodbye by Ruth Picardie, a memoir of her terminal illness with breast cancer; Bridget Jone’s Diary by Helen Fielding, a novel of the love life and entering of middle-age by the titular protagonist through the diary perspective; and White City Blue by Tim Lott, a fictive account of the limits and stigmas of male friendship and in adulthood. Global influences and iterations Though originating in American literary circles, the confessional writing style has gained global use with the growth of Postcolonial theory and globalisation at the end of the 20th century, especially throughout Eurasia and the Middle East, with focuses on personal intersectionality. Key ideas which global confessional writing explores include globalisation, cultural conflict, and the diasporic experience. The Cry of Winnie Mandela, a novel by Njabulo Ndebele, incorporates stylistic features of the confessional writing genre, including first-person narration and the divulging of personal histories, to critique the Apartheid regime, and to represent the experiences of ‘repression suffered by civilians and concealed by colonial occupying forces. Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics by Shinsuke Eguchi blends academic and confessional writing to autoethnographically critique and decolonise perceptions of homosexuality and internalised racism, combining academic elements of theory and criticism with literary and memoir-like representations of personal experience. Souvankham Thammavongsa’s poetic anthology Small Arguments utilises features of confessional writing in a ‘subtle probing