Greg Johnson’s workmanlike biography “Invisible Writer,” published in 1998, ... By Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco; 353 pages; $27.99) Sep 17, 2015. Dan Cryer. Most Popular. 1.

“Babysitter,” Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel, opens with a woman on the precipice of an affair. Hannah, a 1970s housewife from a posh Detroit suburb in expensive clothes and “impractical ...

In “The Return,” Joyce Carol Oates’s story for the latest issue of Harper’s Magazine, a woman visits an old friend whose husband has recently died, only to discover that the nature of her friend’s ...

Rarely has Joyce Carol Oates created a protagonist as compelling as Violet Rue Kerrigan, the young woman who painfully comes of age in My Life as a Rat.And that's saying something, because Oates ...