The Assassins: A Book of Hours
By Joyce Carol Oates When a bullet strikes a powerful political figure, when the burial rites are over and done with, when all that remains of that great promise is […]
Beautiful Days: Stories
By Joyce Carol Oates A new collection of eleven mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize–winning “Undocumented Alien” In the diverse stories of Beautiful […]
With Shuddering Fall
By Joyce Carol Oates With the publication of BY THE NORTH GATE, Joyce Carol Oates established herself firmly on the literary scene. In WITH SHUDDERING FALL, her first novel, she […]
The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque
In these twenty-seven tales of the forbidden, Joyce Carol Oates explores the waking nightmares of life with eyes wide open, facing what the bravest of us fear the most. With eerie brilliance, this master of the short story reminds us just how seductive—and terrifying—they can be.
Dear Husband, : Stories
By Joyce Carol Oates A gripping and moving new collection of stories by Joyce Carol Oates, which reimagines the meaning of family—by unexpected, often startling means. With the unflinching candor […]
Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
By Joyce Carol Oates The need for love—obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable—takes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, a new collection of stories by the […]
Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
By Joyce Carol Oates Novelist, poet, dramatist and author of many of the best American short stories of our time, Joyce Carol Oates shows yet another aspect of her unbounded […]
Lives of the Twins
By joyce Carol Oates (writing as Rosamond Smith) Molly Marks is a very pretty young woman who has never been able to get her life together. She has taken hundreds […]
The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
By Joyce Carol Oates Ten suspenseful stories explore with chilling accuracy the ways in which evil enters our lives: In “Hi! Howya Doin!” an intrusive jogger meets with an abrupt […]
Marriages and Infidelities: Short Stories
By Joyce Carol Oates MARRIAGES AND INFIDELITIES is Joyce Carol Oates’s fourth volume of short stories. In this collection, Miss Oates, who has been called “the best young novelist in […]
DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense
By Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to “illuminate the mind’s most disturbing corners” (Seattle Times). That genius is on full display in her […]
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
By Joyce Carol Oates An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense. “The Corn Maiden” is the […]
Black Dahlia & White Rose
Stories by Joyce Carol Oates A wildly inventive new collection of stories by Joyce Carol Oates that charts the surprising ways in which the world we think we know can […]
A Book of American Martyrs
A Book of American Martyrs is a stunning, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred.
Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life
“Why do we write?” With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life, and all its attendant anxieties, joys, and futilities, in this collection of seminal essays and criticism.
Black Girl / White Girl
Oates writes from the frontier of integration, where race is all but tells us so much less than we might assume, imply or assert. Black Girl/White Girl is the third novel in which Oates plays variations on the psychologically complex themes of interwoven class and ethnic conflict.
Celestial Timepiece 