Joyce Carol Oates is Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities and the Arts at Princeton. Her most recent books are A Widow’s Story: A Memoir and the forthcoming The Corn Maiden: Novellas and Stories. (September 2011)
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The Cure!
September 29, 2011
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing
by Tim Parks
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‘A Widow’s Story’
May 26, 2011
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A ‘Tenuously Reformed Pervert’
April 28, 2011
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
by James Ellroy
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The Camera at Ringside
March 10, 2011
The Fighter a film directed by David O. Russell
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My Son, My Son!
December 23, 2010
Sunset Park
by Paul Auster
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Sex, Farce & Futility
October 28, 2010
The Escape
by Adam Thirlwell
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Unsparing Visions
July 15, 2010
Ether: Seven Stories and a Novella
by Evgenia Citkowitz
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Ardor in Amherst
April 8, 2010
The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
by Jerome Charyn
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‘Who Do You Think You Are?’
December 3, 2009
Too Much Happiness: Stories
by Alice Munro
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The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson
October 8, 2009
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem
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The Faith of Flannery O’Connor
July 2, 2009
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The Parables of Flannery O’Connor
April 9, 2009
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor
by Brad Gooch
The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
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
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
by Flannery O'Connor, selected and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald
Spiritual Writings
by Flannery O'Connor, edited by Robert Ellsberg, with an introduction by Richard Giannone
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In Rough Country
October 23, 2008
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3
by Annie Proulx
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
by Annie Proulx
Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2
by Annie Proulx
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The Woman in White
September 25, 2008
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandalin 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
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In the Emperor’s Dream House
June 12, 2008
The Enchantress of Florence
by Salman Rushdie
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The Mystery of the Ring
May 29, 2008
Boxing: A Cultural History
by Kasia Boddy
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Youth!
May 1, 2008
All the Sad Young Literary Men
by Keith Gessen
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Lest We Forget
July 19, 2007
The Raw Shark Texts
by Steven Hall
Remainder
by Tom McCarthy
Austerlitz
by W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Anthea Bell
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology
edited by Jonathan Lethem
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The Art of Vengeance
April 26, 2007
Collected Stories
by Roald Dahl, with an introduction by Jeremy Treglown
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Brilliance, Silence, Courage
March 15, 2007
Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
by Joan Acocella
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Memoirs of the Artist
January 11, 2007
Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005
A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005
by Annie Leibovitz
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Margaret Atwood’s Tale
November 2, 2006
Moral Disorder
by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood, with an introduction by Valerie Martin
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
by Margaret Atwood, with a new introduction by the author
Surfacing
by Margaret Atwood, with a new introduction by the author
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood, with a new introduction by the author
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Men Without Qualities
October 5, 2006
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
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Dimming the Lights
April 6, 2006
The Good Life
by Jay McInerney
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Targeted in Lebanon
December 1, 2005
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Dangling Men
November 3, 2005
Indecision
by Benjamin Kunkel
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The Treasure of Comanche County
October 20, 2005
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
Suttree
by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts
by Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing
by Cormac McCarthy
Cities of the Plain
by Cormac McCarthy
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Domestic Gothic
September 22, 2005
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The Great Heap of Days
July 14, 2005
Last Night
by James Salter
Dusk and Other Stories
by James Salter
Light Years
by James Salter
Burning the Days: Recollection
by James Salter
A Sport and a Pastime
by James Salter
Solo Faces
by James Salter
The Hunters
by James Salter
Gods of Tin: The Flying Years
by James Salter, edited and with an introduction by Jessica Benton and William Benton
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Marketing Joe Louis
January 13, 2005
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‘The Man with the Golden Smile’
November 18, 2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
by Geoffrey C. Ward
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Can This Marriage Be Saved?
February 26, 2004
The Amateur Marriage
by Anne Tyler
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The Mythmaking Realist
December 18, 2003
Double Vision
by Pat Barker
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News from Everywhere
November 6, 2003
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
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Stranded in the Dark
October 23, 2003
Giving Up the Ghost
by Hilary Mantel
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
by Hilary Mantel
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Desire and Dread
May 1, 2003
Property
by Valerie Martin
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For Goodness’ Sake
August 15, 2002
Servants of the Map
by Andrea Barrett
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Which ‘All the King’s Men’?
June 27, 2002
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‘All the King’s Men’—A Case of Misreading?
March 28, 2002
All the King’s Men
by Robert Penn Warren, restored edition edited by Noel Polk
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The Wind Done Gone
June 21, 2001
Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter William Wells Brown, with an introduction by Hilton Als
Passing Nella Larsen, with an introduction by Ntozake Shange
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Valentine in Sepia
December 21, 2000
What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century
by Henry Allen
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Pilgrim’s Progress
November 2, 2000
Cherry
by Mary Karr
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The Fatal Shore
October 19, 2000
The Shark Net:Memories and Murder
by Robert Drewe
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Dickinson’s Civil War
August 10, 2000
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Haunted by Salmon
July 20, 2000
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie
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An Endangered Species
June 29, 2000
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
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‘The Perfect Lady’
May 11, 2000
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I’ll Take Manhattan
March 9, 2000
City of God
by E.L. Doctorow
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Wearing Out the West
October 21, 1999
Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
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The Mystery of JonBenét Ramsey
June 24, 1999
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
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The Case of the Canned Lawyer
April 8, 1999
The Crime of Sheila McGough
by Janet Malcolm
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Depth-Sightings
September 24, 1998
Sight-Readings: American Fictions
by Elizabeth Hardwick
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A Lost Generation
July 16, 1998
Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country
by William Finnegan
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Inside the Locked Room
February 5, 1998
A Certain Justice: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery by P.D. James
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Killer Kids
November 6, 1997
The Bad Seed by William March
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Troubles I’ve Seen
March 27, 1997
The Cattle Killing
by John Edgar Wideman
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The King of Weird
October 31, 1996
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
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The Simple Art of Murder
December 21, 1995
Stories and Early Novels
by Raymond Chandler
Later Novels and Other Writings
by Raymond Chandler
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Story of X
November 16, 1995
In the Cut by Susanna Moore
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Serial Killers
June 9, 1994
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‘I Had No Other Thrill or Happiness’
March 24, 1994
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
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Not a Lightweight
May 14, 1992
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The Cruelest Sport
February 13, 1992
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)
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Arrests in Poland
August 14, 1986
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Death in Iran
August 13, 1981
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Boycott Taba
October 11, 1979
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Objection
December 21, 1978
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Smile
October 4, 1973
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The Fighter’s Cruel Art
February 3, 2011