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.
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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 […]
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 […]
Complicit in Racism
Joyce Carol Oates recalls a racial profiling incident from the 1990’s in light of more recent and tragic events in Ferguson, MO and elsewhere, and relates it to her novel The Sacrifice. […]
Whiteness as Cursed Property in Bellefleur
Karen Gaffney shines a different light on the Bellefleur curse in her article “Whiteness as Cursed Property: An Interdisciplinary Intervention with Joyce Carol Oates’s Bellefleur and Cheryl Harris’s ‘Whiteness as […]
Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
By Greg Johnson New York: Dutton, 1998 492 pages For more than three decades, Joyce Carol Oates has been hailed as one of the most significant and enduring writers of […]
A Brief Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
By Greg Johnson Originally published in A Reader’s Guide to the Recent Novels of Joyce Carol Oates Copyright © 1996 by Greg Johnson Joyce Carol Oates has often expressed an […]
Stories That Define Me
By Joyce Carol Oates Originally published in the New York Times Book Review, July 11, 1982. Telling stories, I discovered at the age of 3 or 4, is a way of […]
Tavis Smiley: JCO’s “The Sacrifice” and Race in America
Tavis Smiley talks with Joyce Carol Oates about her novel The Sacrifice and race in America, introducing her as “one of the best writers America has ever produced.” See the video interview […]
Celestial Timepiece 