Reviews
Monday, April 29 2013
Vampire Sodomy in Princeton: Joyce Carol Oates' 'The Accursed'
Joyce Carol Oates's most recent sprawling novel concerns blood-sucking sodomites, shape-shifters, and ghosts. You'll also find a colorful cast of real-world characters: Teddy Roosevelt, Jack London, Sam Clemens, and more...
Thursday, January 31 2013
The Monster Next Door: Joyce Carol Oates' 'Daddy Love'
The monsters in Daddy Love are people, not fantastical creatures from the deep or outer space. They are human. They prey on little boys.
Monday, January 11 2010
A Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates
That Oates continues writing, year after year, is testament to her talent and our great luck to have this talent among us.
Tuesday, September 30 2008
My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates
A strange hybrid of cultural parody and psychological realism, in which Oates’s broadly drawn characters gradually take on realistic emotional complexity.
Monday, October 25 2004
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
The close-knit family psycho-drama that the author intends simply loses its purpose as its scope is blown out of proportion to match the massive scenery of Niagara Falls.
News
Friday, March 4 2011
Joyce Carol Oates advises widows in frank, insightful book
ST. LOUIS — Joyce Carol Oates is saying out loud what you suspected her inner voice might be whispering to her: "I don't really like…
Wednesday, March 18 2009
Prolific author Joyce Carol Oates struggles to write through a year of loss
Since Joyce Carol Oates' first novel, "With Shuddering Fall," came out in 1964, she has averaged two books a year. Many of them are novels,…
