Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)

From the Review

December 3, 2009: 'Who Do You Think You Are?'

Too Much Happiness: Stories by Alice Munro

October 8, 2009: The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem

July 2, 2009: The Faith of Flannery O'Connor (letter)

April 9, 2009: The Parables of Flannery O'Connor

Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor, selected and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald

Collected Works: Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Violent Bear It Away, Everything That Rises Must Converge, Stories and Occasional Prose, Letters by Flannery O'Connor

Spiritual Writings by Flannery O'Connor, edited by Robert Ellsberg, with an introduction by Richard Giannone

October 23, 2008: In Rough Country

Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx

Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx

Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx

September 25, 2008: The Woman in White

A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey

White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple

June 12, 2008: In the Emperor's Dream House

The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

May 29, 2008: The Mystery of the Ring

Boxing: A Cultural History by Kasia Boddy

May 1, 2008: Youth!

All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen

July 19, 2007: Lest We Forget

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

Remainder by Tom McCarthy

The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology edited by Jonathan Lethem

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Anthea Bell

April 26, 2007: The Art of Vengeance

Collected Stories by Roald Dahl, with an introduction by Jeremy Treglown

March 15, 2007: Brilliance, Silence, Courage

Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella

January 11, 2007: Memoirs of the Artist

Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005

A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 by Annie Leibovitz

November 2, 2006: Margaret Atwood's Tale

Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, with an introduction by Valerie Martin

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, with a new introduction by the author

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature by Margaret Atwood, with a new introduction by the author

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, with a new introduction by the author

October 5, 2006: Men Without Qualities

The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud

When the World Was Steady by Claire Messud

The Last Life by Claire Messud

The Hunters by Claire Messud

April 6, 2006: Dimming the Lights

The Good Life by Jay McInerney

December 1, 2005: Targeted in Lebanon (letter)

November 3, 2005: Dangling Men

Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel

October 20, 2005: The Treasure of Comanche County

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy

Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

September 22, 2005: Domestic Gothic

July 14, 2005: The Great Heap of Days

Last Night by James Salter

Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter

Light Years by James Salter

A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter

Gods of Tin: The Flying Years by James Salter, edited and with an introduction by Jessica Benton and William Benton

The Hunters by James Salter

Solo Faces by James Salter

Burning the Days: Recollection by James Salter

January 13, 2005: Marketing Joe Louis (letter)

November 18, 2004: 'The Man with the Golden Smile'

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey C. Ward

February 26, 2004: Can This Marriage Be Saved?

The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler

December 18, 2003: The Mythmaking Realist

Double Vision by Pat Barker

November 6, 2003: News from Everywhere

A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies by John Murray

Goblin Fruit by David Marshall Chan

Red Ant House by Ann Cummins

Curled in the Bed of Love by Catherine Brady

October 23, 2003: Stranded in the Dark

Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel

August 14, 2003: Who Murdered the Minister?

The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt

May 1, 2003: Desire and Dread

Property by Valerie Martin

August 15, 2002: For Goodness' Sake

Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett

June 27, 2002: Which 'All the King's Men'? (letter)

March 28, 2002: 'All the King's Men'—A Case of Misreading?

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, restored edition edited by Noel Polk

November 15, 2001: Dark Laughter

The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith by Patricia Highsmith, with a foreword by Graham Greene

A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith

June 21, 2001: The Wind Done Gone

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter William Wells Brown, with an introduction by Hilton Als

Passing Nella Larsen, with an introduction by Ntozake Shange

December 21, 2000: Valentine in Sepia

What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century by Henry Allen

November 2, 2000: Pilgrim's Progress

Cherry by Mary Karr

October 19, 2000: The Fatal Shore

The Shark Net:Memories and Murder by Robert Drewe

August 10, 2000: Dickinson's Civil War (letter)

July 20, 2000: Haunted by Salmon

The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie

June 29, 2000: An Endangered Species

Everything in This Country Must: A Novella and Two Stories by Colum McCann

Scar Vegas and Other Stories by Tom Paine

Dressing Up for the Carnival by Carol Shields

In the Gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark

Pastoralia by George Saunders

May 11, 2000: 'The Perfect Lady' (letter)

March 9, 2000: I'll Take Manhattan

City of God by E.L. Doctorow

October 21, 1999: Wearing Out the West

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

June 24, 1999: The Mystery of JonBenét Ramsey

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder by Lawrence Schiller

Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey? by Cyril Wecht, by Charles Bosworth Jr.

A Mother Gone Bad: The Hidden Confession of JonBenét's Killer by Andrew G. Hodges

Death of a Little Princess: The Tragic Story of the Murder of JonBenét Ramsey by Carlton Smith

April 8, 1999: The Case of the Canned Lawyer

The Crime of Sheila McGough by Janet Malcolm

September 24, 1998: Depth-Sightings

Sight-Readings: American Fictions by Elizabeth Hardwick

July 16, 1998: A Lost Generation

Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country by William Finnegan

February 5, 1998: Inside the Locked Room

A Certain Justice: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery by P.D. James

November 6, 1997: Killer Kids

The Bad Seed by William March

March 27, 1997: Troubles I've Seen

The Cattle Killing by John Edgar Wideman

October 31, 1996: The King of Weird

H.P. Lovecraft: A Life by S.T. Joshi

The Dunwich Horror and Others selected by August Derleth, with texts edited by S.T. Joshi

At the Mountains of Madness & Other Novels edited by S.T. Joshi

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales edited by S.T. Joshi

Miscellaneous Writings edited by S.T. Joshi

Selected Letters Vol. I: 1911-1924 edited by S.T. Joshi

Selected Letters Vol. II: 1925-1929 edited by S.T. Joshi

Selected Letters Vol. III: 1929-1931 edited by S.T. Joshi

Selected Letters Vol. IV: 1932-1934 edited by S.T. Joshi

Selected Letters Vol. V: 1934-1937 edited by S.T. Joshi

December 21, 1995: The Simple Art of Murder

Stories and Early Novels by Raymond Chandler

Later Novels and Other Writings by Raymond Chandler

November 16, 1995: Story of X

In the Cut by Susanna Moore

June 9, 1994: Serial Killers (letter)

March 24, 1994: 'I Had No Other Thrill or Happiness'

Serial Killers by Joel Norris

Probing the Mind of a Serial Killer by Jack A. Apsche

Death Benefit: A Lawyer Uncovers a Twenty-year Pattern of Seduction, Arson, and Murder by David Heilbroner

The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy by Ann Rule

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer directed by Nick Broomfield

Killing for Company: The Story of a Man Addicted to Murder by Brian Masters

The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough: The Secret Murders of Milwaukee's Jeffrey Dahmer by Anne E. Schwartz

A Father's Story by Lionel Dahmer

Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton

True Crime, Vol. 2: Serial Killers & Mass Murderers by Valarie Jones, by Peggy Collier

May 14, 1992: Not a Lightweight (letter)

February 13, 1992: The Cruelest Sport

Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser

The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing by Thomas Hauser

Sports Illustrated Boxing's Best: Muhammad Ali HBO Video, 60 minutes, $9.99

Ali vs. Foreman, 1974 Hemdale Home Video, 44 minutes, $19.95

The Ali/Norton Trilogy NAC Home Video, 90 minutes (out of print)

Muhammad Ali: Skill, Brains and Guts Vid-America Inc., 90 minutes (out of print)

August 14, 1986: Arrests in Poland (letter)

August 13, 1981: Death in Iran (letter)

October 11, 1979: Boycott Taba (letter)

December 21, 1978: Objection (letter)

October 4, 1973: Smile (letter)

From New York Review Books

Three Bedrooms in Manhattan An actor and a divorcée meet in a deserted New York City bar. With little in common save loneliness, middle age, and a presentiment of escape, they improvise a love story.

Books by Joyce Carol Oates

Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003)
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl (2002)
I'll Take You There: A Novel (2002)
Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001)
Blonde: A Novel (2000)
Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose (1999)
Broke Heart Blues: A Novel (1999)
My Heart Laid Bare (1998)
New Plays (1998)
The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998)
Man Crazy: A Novel (1997)
First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996)
Tenderness (1996)
Will You Always Love Me?: And Other Stories (1996)
We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)
George Bellows: American Artist (1995)
The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995)
Zombie (1995)
Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994)
What I Lived For (1994)
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993)
Where Is Here?: Stories (1992)
Heat, and Other Stories (1991)
Twelve Plays (1991)
The Rise of Life on Earth (1991)
I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990)
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990)
Expensive People (1990)
Oates in Exile (1990)
The Time Traveler (1989)
American Appetites (1989)
Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates (1989)
(woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities (1988)
The Assignation: Stories (1988)
On Boxing (1987)
You Must Remember This (1987)
Hem (1986)
Marya: A Life (1986)
Raven's Wing (1986)
Solstice (1985)
Last Days: Stories (1984)
Mysteries of Winterthurn: A Novel (1984)
Invisible Woman: New & Selected Poems, 1970-1982 (1982)
A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)
Contraries: Essays (1981)
Angel of Light (1981)
A Sentimental Education: Stories (1980)
Bellefleur (1980)
Three Plays (1980)
Unholy Loves: A Novel (1979)
All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979)
Cybele (1979)
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money: Poems (1978)
Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977)
The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976)
Childwold (1976)
Crossing the Border: Fifteen Tales (1976)
The Fabulous Beasts: Poems (1975)
The Seduction & Other Stories (1975)
The Assassins: A Book of Hours (1975)
The Goddess and Other Women (1974)
The Hungry Ghosts; Seven Allusive Comedies (1974)
New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature (1974)
Miracle Play (1974)
The Hostile Sun; The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence (1973)
Scenes from American Life; Contemporary Short Fiction (1973)
Angel Fire; Poems (1973)
Do with Me What You Will (1973)
Marriages and Infidelities; Short Stories (1972)
The Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature (1972)
Wonderland; A Novel (1971)
Love and Its Derangements; Poems (1970)
The Wheel of Love, and Other Stories (1970)
Them (1969)
Anonymous Sins & Other Poems (1969)