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.
My Sister, My Love is John Barth with Heart
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler of The Huffington Post offer a perceptive and entertaining review of Joyce Carol Oates’s My Sister, My Love: “Oates’ intentions are signaled with a quotation that precedes the book. In ‘Aesthetics of Composition’ (1846), we learn, E. A. Pym opined that ‘the death of a beautiful child is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.’ […]
Celestial Timepiece 