Oates: 225 books

The Spring 2010 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Elizabeth Strout. This issue of Ploughshares features fiction by Richard Bausch, Lisa Cupolo, Mary Gordon, Amy Hempel, Carol Keeley, Marjorie Kemper, Scott Nadelson, Joyce Carol Oates, E. V. Slate, and Kathryn Staley as well as poetry by Amy...

What motivated John George Haigh to murder at least six people, then dissolve their corpses in concentrated sulphuric acid? How did this intelligent, well-educated man from a loving, strongly religious family of Plymouth Brethren become a fraudster, a thief, then a serial killer? In the latest of...

Women, African Americans, and gays have recently upended US culture with demands for inclusion and respect, while economic changes have transformed work and daily life for millions of Americans. The national obsession with the National Football League provides a window on this dynamic period of change,...

Après Bellefleur, voici le deuxième tome de la trilogie gothique de Joyce Carol Oates. Pensylvannie. 1789. Cinq soeurs entre seize et vingt-deux ans. La narratrice : une vierge amère. Tout commence quand Miss Deirdre Zin, fille adoptive de l’inventeur John Quincy Zin, est enlevée par un homme...

Campi di segale sotto il sole abbacinante dell’Arkansas. Le mani strappano i frutti dalla terra, la terra prude e si mangia le mani. I braccianti arrancano nel meriggio insieme ai cavalli e il sogno americano è un abbaglio nell’afa, una zacchera di fango sulla schiena, un canto di nostalgia e...

Una raccolta di saggi, scritti nell'arco di vent'anni, quattro dei quali pubblicati per la prima volta in Italia, che ripercorrono la storia della boxe dai giochi gladiatori dell'antica Roma al pugilato a mani nude praticato in Inghilterra fin dal Diciottesimo secolo; dai combattimenti tra schiavi...

“There is no better introduction to current thinking about Lincoln and his place in history.” —Newsday “Here, in these pages, Lincoln is still alive.” —Los Angeles Times From Stephen B. Oates comes a riveting companion to his seminal Lincoln biography With Malice Toward None....

The stunning, classic portrait of a powerful man's downward spiral to moral ruin Jerome "Corky" Corcorn. A money-juggling wheeler dealer, rising politico, popular man's man, and successful womanizer. It is a Memorial Day weekend, and we are about to live with him, breathe with him, and sweat...

Lee Child's street corner. Gary Shteyngart's bed. Joyce Carol Oates's classroom. Roxane Gay's dream house. Billy Collins's New York City. Aimee Mann and Jonathan Coulton's kitchen. Valeria Luiselli's writing desk. Sloane Crosley's conference call. Alain Mabanckou's Department of Human Resources. Jonathan...

Nominated for the 2017 Anthony Award for Best Anthology/Collection *** Proceeds from the sales of Unloaded will benefit the nonprofit States United To Prevent Gun Violence (CeaseFireUSA.org) *** For the first time, more than two dozen crime and mystery authors have joined together to...

A lonely widow is romanced by a “brilliantly portrayed” pathological killer in this novel by the National Book Award–winning author of them (The New York Times).   Dorothea Deverell is a New England art historian working for a Boston museum, resigned to entering middle age alone—until she’s...

«Si no se puede golpear, por lo menos se puede ser golpeado, y saber que todavía se está vivo.» Del boxeo es un ensayo sencillo, dramático y de una profundidad evocadora. Te golpea convirtiendo tus recuerdos en jumps, ganchos o rectos de derecha. Te coloca en una posición en donde la...

In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story,...

A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damned Princeton, New Jersey, at the turn of...