The Awkward Academic: Why Judith Reads James in Joyce Carol Oates’s “My Warszawa: 1980”
Kerry Sutherland charts the connections between Joyce Carol Oates’s story “My Warszawa: 1980” and Henry James’s The Awkward Age.
The Creative Process Exhibition
The American Writers Museum will be opening in Chicago in March 2017. In the run up to the opening, The Creative Process exhibition is being launched next year and will be traveling to universities and museums, beginning with the Sorbonne in April 2016.
Raymond J. Smith
As the editor and publisher of the distinguished literary magazine Ontario Review and of Ontario Review Press, and as the husband of novelist Joyce Carol Oates, Ray led a rich and full life devoted not only to his work and his marriage but also to numerous friends in the Princeton area and beyond.
Joyce Carol Oates on D.H. Lawrence
“If Lawrence hadn’t written those novels he would have been far more readily acclaimed as one of the greatest poets in the language.” —Joyce Carol Oates, Paris Review The Hostile Sun: […]
The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence
It is illuminating to read Lawrence’s entire poetic work as a kind of journal … This massive work is more powerful, more emotionally combative, than even the greatest of his novels.
Lawrence’s Götterdämmerung: The Apocalyptic Vision of Women in Love
Women in Love is an inadequate title. The novel concerns itself with far more than simply women in love. Gerald and Birkin and Ursula and Gudrun are immense figures, monstrous creations out of legend, out of mythology; they are unable to alter their fates, like tragic heroes and heroines of old.
The Man Without A Shadow
A taut and fascinating novel that examines the mysteries of human memory and personality as they are bound up with the most mysterious phenomenon of all—love.
A Widow’s Story: A Memoir
A Widow’s Story illuminates one woman’s struggle to comprehend a life without the partnership that had sustained and defined her for nearly half a century. As never before, Joyce Carol Oates shares the derangement of denial, the anguish of loss, the disorientation of the survivor amid a nightmare of “death-duties,” and the solace of friendship.
Review of The Lost Landscape
These feelings of empathy with those who are so similar to the author herself but who experienced a different fate reinforce Oates’s message throughout her writing that our existence is so often determined by mere chance.
My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike
Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, wry, satirical tale—inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery.
JonBenét Ramsey, America’s Most Famous Little Girl
A poem too can be a garrote. —Anon.
The Mystery of JonBenét Ramsey
The notorious case of the murder of six-year-old child beauty-pageant winner JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado, a case that Sherlock Holmes would have “solved” in a few seconds’ ratiocination (“No footprints in the snow around the house? No forced entry? A staged kidnapping, ransom note seemingly written by the mother?”)
Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You
By Joyce Carol Oates There was no reason. There were many reasons. There came the razor blade between my fingers. There came the current like electricity through my arm— through […]
Celestial Timepiece 