“The Frenzy” seems to me a very New Jersey story, an adventure of naïve hope, cynicism, humbling, and humiliation—an ending ...

(JTA) — Joyce Carol Oates’ grandmother was Jewish, but the author wasn’t aware of that fact until after her grandmother’s death in 1970. After immigrating to America, Oates’ ancestor hid ...

The enthusiastic audience participated in lively post-performance discussion moderated by Sayer Holliday, the Head of Programming for the New York Society Library with Connington and Oates.

Rarely has Joyce Carol Oates created a protagonist as compelling as Violet Rue ... “You see the approach, you contemplate the beauty of the cloud, you observe it passing, you let it go. You do not ...

In Joyce Carol Oates’ future America, history and free thought are off-limits. Thus, high school senior Adriane Strohl is arrested for treasonous speech when it’s revealed that her valedictory address ...