Forthcoming Books
See also: Recently published stories, essays, poems, and other articles by Joyce Carol Oates. Extenuating Circumstances (stories) By Joyce Carol Oates Expected publication date: May 10, 2022 Babysitter (novel) By […]
The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates
Oates’s achievements are indisputable for anyone who has read her work extensively. Her body of novels … is among the most wide-ranging in contemporary writing. …she is the nearest America […]
The Short Story Collections of Joyce Carol Oates
Among contemporary writers, Joyce Carol Oates is the unrivaled American master of the short story. She has exploited the genre with such energy, versatility, and resourcefulness that critics routinely compare […]
The Poetry of Joyce Carol Oates
Oates’s poetry … forms a body of work on its own merits and does not need to be interpreted only as an adjunct to her novels and short stories, as […]
The Plays of Joyce Carol Oates
In my writing for the theater I always have in mind, as an undercurrent shaping and guiding the surface action, the ancient structure of drama as a sacrificial rite. Drama […]
The Novellas of Joyce Carol Oates
My sense of the novella is that of a rapturously extended prose poem driven by a narrative; the more suspenseful the narrative, the more dreamlike and obsessive the atmosphere of […]
The Nonfiction of Joyce Carol Oates
Essays, articles, memoirs … these forms are wrongly considered unimaginative, or, in any case, considered somehow less significant than the imaginative writer’s ‘real’ work. As if one does not speak […]
The Anthologies of Joyce Carol Oates
Isn’t the implicit promise of an anthology that it will, or aspires to, present something different, unexpected? How ironic, it seemed to me, yet, perhaps, how symbolic, that in our […]
The Works of Joyce Carol Oates
A future archeologist equipped only with her oeuvre could easily piece together the whole of postwar America.
The Young Adult & Children’s Books of Joyce Carol Oates
Young adults do change rapidly; they are enormously impressionable, and subject to influences both good and bad. In this genre, I would never involve adolescent characters in the sort of […]
Celestial Timepiece 