“Fox” details the devastation wrought by a manipulative English teacher who sexually abuses his students.

“Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer” is an unconventional work due to its epistolary nature. Rather than writing about Oates’s life himself, editor Greg Johnson — her longtime ...

By Joyce Carol Oates Edited by Greg Johnson Akashic Books, 336 pages. In 1975, graduate student Greg Johnson wrote to Joyce Carol Oates, beginning a correspondence that would lead to friendship and to ...

Joyce Carol Oates will discuss her new suspenseful psychological thriller “Fox” at the Mark Twain House & Museum on June 20.

Joyce Carol Oates has praised the new Netflix film adaptation of her Marilyn Monroe biography, Blonde. The film, directed by Andrew Dominik ( Killing Them Softly ), stars Ana de Armas ( Knives Out ...

Writer and X (formerly Twitter) provocateur Joyce Carol Oates will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Decatur Book Festival (DBF), set for Oct. 4-5, organizers announced last week. Oates, 85 ...

Joyce Carol Oates has written dozens of books, but her editor Daniel Halpern suggested to me that talking about her productivity is boring.Yes, she is prolific. Halpern, who has worked with her ...

When Joyce Carol Oates was thirty-four, she started a journal. “Query,” she wrote on the first page. “Does the individual exist?” She felt that she knew little about herself—for instance ...

Now well into her 80s, prolific American author Joyce Carol Oates keeps cranking out the books, most recently the disturbing novel “Butcher.” The author of more than 50 novels, including ...