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Maybe that’s my personal fear, but Joyce Carol Oates taps straight into it with the gripping, disgusting and darkly comic opening to her latest novel, Fox.

Joyce Carol Oates' "Fox" focuses on Francis Fox, a charming English teacher new to the Langhorne Academy. But after Fox’s car half-submerged is found in a pond, the community begins to ask disturbing ...

The Mark Twain House & Museum is overjoyed that the famous novelist Joyce Carol Oates is finally able to visit on one of her book tours. Oates, who will be discussing her new book “Fox” at the ...

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

Photos: Bill Connington Stars In Joyce Carol Oates' CHILLER At New York Society Library First published as a story in The New Yorker in 2009, it was reimagined as a solo performance piece with ...

Deborah Treisman interviews the writer Joyce Carol Oates about “The Frenzy,” her story from the March 24, 2025, issue of The New Yorker.

Garth Risk Hallberg, the author of “The Second Coming” and “City on Fire,” selects recommendations from Joyce Carol Oates’s sprawling body of work.

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 ...

Deborah Treisman interviews the writer Joyce Carol Oates about “Late Love,” her story from the April 22 & 29, 2024, issue of The New Yorker.