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.
2015 Pulitzer Prize Finalist: Lovely, Dark, Deep
Lovely, Dark, Deep, Joyce Carol Oates’s story collection from 2014 was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
JCO Reviews Rafael Yglesias’s The Wisdom of Perversity
“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 …
Jocoserious Joyce
Ulysses is certainly the greatest novel in the English language, and one might argue for its being the greatest single work of art in our tradition. How significant, then, and how teasing, that this masterwork should be a comedy and that its creator should have explicitly valued the comic “vision” over the tragic …
Bellefleur
From one of our most distinguished authors comes her most ambitious novel to date: an elaborate series of interlocking tales of six generations of the Bellefleur family and more than a century of American history.
JCO Reviews Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
The Buried Giant is a coolly orchestrated text in which ideas about human nature, human memory, and the vicissitudes of a war-tormented history constitute the essential drama …
We Were the Mulvaneys
You will not read a novel more enthralling, more moving, more unforgettably illumined by profoundly human truth than this story of the rise, the fall, and the ultimate redemption of an American family. That family is the Mulvaneys.
them
By Joyce Carol Oates Loretta Wendall, her daughter Maureen, and her son Jules are “them”—three characters held together by corroding hatred and mute love. “Them” are also the forces that […]
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
By Joyce Carol Oates New York: Dutton, 1993 328 Pages foxfire revenge ! foxfire never says sorry ! foxfire burns & burns ! The time is the 1950s. The place […]
Marya: A Life
By Joyce Carol Oates “Amazingly gifted” was how The Times Literary Supplement recently described Joyce Carol Oates, and we would add “remarkably productive”—in 1984, not one but two of her works, the […]
Monographs on Joyce Carol Oates
Katherine Bastian Joyce Carol Oates’s Short Stories Between Tradition and Innovation Frankfurt am Main : Verlag P. Lang, 1983 Eileen Teper Bender Joyce Carol Oates: Artist in Residence Bloomington : Indiana University […]
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal focusing on the writing of Joyce Carol Oates and related subjects, with the goal of advancing knowledge of and […]
Selected JCO Manuscripts
These manuscript images have been selected from the Joyce Carol Oates Papers in the Special Collections Research Center at the Syracuse University Libraries. Images were chosen for their intrinsic visual […]
The Madness of Scholarship: In the Joyce Carol Oates Archive
This accounting of the Archive’s contents revealed that many of the accepted notions about this author’s work, and her work habits, were sheer nonsense, fabrications by critics and so-called “literary journalists” who had, for the past quarter-century, tirelessly speculated, complained and just plain gossiped about the phenomenon of “Oates.”
The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age
In The Lost Landscape, Joyce Carol Oates vividly re-creates the early years of her life in western New York State, powerfully evoking the romance of childhood and the way it colors everything that comes after.
Michael Krasny Interviews JCO about The Sacrifice
Michael Krasny interviews Joyce Carol Oates about her novel The Sacrifice for KQED’s Forum. Identity politics suggests that we can only write about existing inside our own skin; the existentials […]
Celestial Timepiece 