
Eric K. Anderson reviews Jack of Spades
Joyce Carol Oates has considered the issues of authorship and identity at length in both her fiction and nonfiction.
A Joyce Carol Oates Patchwork
Joyce Carol Oates has considered the issues of authorship and identity at length in both her fiction and nonfiction.
Lovely, Dark, Deep, Joyce Carol Oates’s story collection from 2014 was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
“Childhood was the ideal soft metal for the permanent engravings of evil.” This beautifully, bleakly precise statement occurs early in Rafael Yglesias’s painful and candid new novel about the consequences, seemingly irremediable, of childhood sexual molestation …