Get Access to Print and Digital for $23.99.
Subscribe for Full Access

Joyce Carol Oates

Some Like It Hot

by Sophie Lewis,

Notes from the Marilyn Appreciation Society

Detour

by Joyce Carol Oates,

Too early for spring, you couldn’t trust such blinding-white sunshine in mid-March. And the smell of damp earth thawing, reviving—too soon. Abigail was feeling light-headed. Unreal. A seismic sensation, as…

Still Life

by Joyce Carol Oates,

From Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars., which will be published this month by Ecco. The novel tells the story of John Earle “Whitey” McClaren, a sixty-seven-year-old businessman who is beaten…

Good Plain English

by Nat Segnit,

The problem with writing manuals

New books

by John Leonard,

Ifs, ands, butts. The literary sensibility at ringside

by Arthur Krystal,

Stop me before I write again

by James Wolcott,

Six hundred more pages by Joyce Carol Oates

Literary gluttony

by Frances Taliaferro,

Sating the binge-reader

Ineffable pleasures

by Jeffrey Burke,

The variety of short stories

“Oates”

by Alfred Kazin,

Books in brief

by Katherine Gauss Jackson,