My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike
Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, wry, satirical tale—inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery.
JonBenét Ramsey, America’s Most Famous Little Girl
A poem too can be a garrote. —Anon.
The Mystery of JonBenét Ramsey
The notorious case of the murder of six-year-old child beauty-pageant winner JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado, a case that Sherlock Holmes would have “solved” in a few seconds’ ratiocination (“No footprints in the snow around the house? No forced entry? A staged kidnapping, ransom note seemingly written by the mother?”)
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 