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Joyce Carol OatesMarch 2025Internet wormholeLong live Joyce Carol Oates’ Twitter account: the only pure space left on this hell siteThe 86-year-old author’s social feed might be her greatest contribution to literature – with philosophical musings on everything from US politics to an infected foot10 Mar 2025 15.00 CET…… commentsOctober 2022Peter Robinson obituaryAuthor of the Inspector Alan Banks series and welcome presence at crime fiction festivals around the world14 Oct 2022 18.44 CEST…… commentsSeptember 2022Some like it overheated: how Marilyn Monroe is betrayed by Blonde28 Sept 2022 09.01 CESTMark Kermodes film of the weekBlonde review – a hellish vision of Marilyn and her monsters25 Sept 2022 09.00 CESTAudiobook of the weekBlonde by Joyce Carol Oates audiobook review – an imagined life of Marilyn Monroe23 Sept 2022 11.00 CESTPeter Bradshaws film of the weekBlonde review – Ana de Armas gives her all as Monroe in otherwise incurious film21 Sept 2022 14.00 CEST‘I truly believe she was close’: star of new biopic sensed Marilyn Monroe on set8 Sept 2022 17.20 CEST‘Every time I write, it’s like the first time’: Joyce Carol Oates on her 61 novels, Twitter storms and widowhood1 Sept 2022 07.00 CESTAugust 2022Observer book of the weekBabysitter by Joyce Carol Oates review – risk-taking and unforgettable The tale of a 1970s housewife seeking self-obliteration in an abusive affair in Detroit, set against the backdrop of child serial killings, is an astonishing achievement21 Aug 2022 08.00 CEST…… commentsJuly 2022The myth of Marilyn Monroe: how her ‘sex bomb’ image buries the truth Six decades on, the spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s tumultuous life and death continues to hold us in its grip. With a major new biopic on the way, her biographer sorts fact from fiction29 Jul 2022 09.00 CEST…… commentsJune 2022Blonde: first trailer for ‘disturbing’ Marilyn Monroe biopic releasedNetflix film, which has been called ‘startling’ by source author Joyce Carol Oates, stars Ana de Armas as the tragic actor16 Jun 2022 16.26 CESTMay 2022Blonde: will a shocking new film shatter the myth of Marilyn Monroe?From Cannes to the Met Gala, the screen icon’s lucrative legacy lives on. But how will a new film affect the way the world sees her?13 May 2022 15.48 CESTApril 2022Ten tweets in need of the new edit button: from covfefe to Oscars selfieAs Twitter prepares to roll out its new edit function, a look back at the tweets that could have done with one9 Apr 2022 09.00 CESTMarch 2022Night, Neon and Other Stories of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates review – nuanced, not neat, thrillersEmbracing the twists and turns of everyday American life, the author’s latest short story collection is playful, gripping and disturbing27 Mar 2022 17.00 CEST…… commentsOctober 2021Down the rabbit holeDegrees of separation: what connects Ana de Armas to Joan Didion?From Knives Out to Joan Didion via Herman Hupfeld: we go down the rabbit hole of the Bond star’s career9 Oct 2021 14.00 CESTSeptember 2021Margaret Atwood and JM Coetzee demand release of jailed Iranian writersA letter by PEN America, signed by dozens of high-profile writers and artistic figures, calls for Baktash Abtin, Keyvan Bajan, and Reza Khandan Mahabadi to be acquitted29 Sept 2021 18.17 CESTNovember 2020Elena Ferrante names her 40 favourite books by female authorsList by pseudonymous author of beloved Neapolitan novels includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney and several Italian classics21 Nov 2020 01.01 CETJune 2020Book of the dayNight. Sleep. Death. The Stars. by Joyce Carol Oates review – a portrait of a family and a nation in crisisRunning the gamut from tragic to funny, Joyce Carol Oates’s immersive new novel is an uncomfortable snapshot of modern-day America15 Jun 2020 08.00 CESTJune 2019Books interviewJoyce Carol Oates: ‘It’s a fairytale nightmare to be rejected’The acclaimed author on the power of familial love, ignoring advice to write only about domestic life, and the recent death of her husband1 Jun 2019 19.00 CESTDecember 2018Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates review – exiled from the futureIn this audacious thought experiment about the shrinking of human potential, a rebellious teen is sent back to the 50s19 Dec 2018 09.58 CET…… commentsAbout 103 results for Joyce Carol Oates1234...

Joyce Carol OatesMarch 2025Internet wormholeLong live Joyce Carol Oates’ Twitter account: the only pure space left on this hell siteThe 86-year-old author’s social feed might be her greatest


contribution to literature – with philosophical musings on everything from US politics to an infected foot10 Mar 2025 15.00 CET…… commentsOctober 2022Peter Robinson obituaryAuthor of the


Inspector Alan Banks series and welcome presence at crime fiction festivals around the world14 Oct 2022 18.44 CEST…… commentsSeptember 2022Some like it overheated: how Marilyn Monroe is


betrayed by Blonde28 Sept 2022 09.01 CESTMark Kermode's film of the weekBlonde review – a hellish vision of Marilyn and her monsters25 Sept 2022 09.00 CESTAudiobook of the weekBlonde by


Joyce Carol Oates audiobook review – an imagined life of Marilyn Monroe23 Sept 2022 11.00 CESTPeter Bradshaw's film of the weekBlonde review – Ana de Armas gives her all as Monroe in


otherwise incurious film21 Sept 2022 14.00 CEST‘I truly believe she was close’: star of new biopic sensed Marilyn Monroe on set8 Sept 2022 17.20 CEST‘Every time I write, it’s like the first


time’: Joyce Carol Oates on her 61 novels, Twitter storms and widowhood1 Sept 2022 07.00 CESTAugust 2022Observer book of the weekBabysitter by Joyce Carol Oates review – risk-taking and


unforgettable The tale of a 1970s housewife seeking self-obliteration in an abusive affair in Detroit, set against the backdrop of child serial killings, is an astonishing achievement21 Aug


2022 08.00 CEST…… commentsJuly 2022The myth of Marilyn Monroe: how her ‘sex bomb’ image buries the truth Six decades on, the spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s tumultuous life and death continues


to hold us in its grip. With a major new biopic on the way, her biographer sorts fact from fiction29 Jul 2022 09.00 CEST…… commentsJune 2022Blonde: first trailer for ‘disturbing’ Marilyn


Monroe biopic releasedNetflix film, which has been called ‘startling’ by source author Joyce Carol Oates, stars Ana de Armas as the tragic actor16 Jun 2022 16.26 CESTMay 2022Blonde: will a


shocking new film shatter the myth of Marilyn Monroe?From Cannes to the Met Gala, the screen icon’s lucrative legacy lives on. But how will a new film affect the way the world sees her?13


May 2022 15.48 CESTApril 2022Ten tweets in need of the new edit button: from covfefe to Oscars selfieAs Twitter prepares to roll out its new edit function, a look back at the tweets that


could have done with one9 Apr 2022 09.00 CESTMarch 2022Night, Neon and Other Stories of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates review – nuanced, not neat, thrillersEmbracing the twists and turns of


everyday American life, the author’s latest short story collection is playful, gripping and disturbing27 Mar 2022 17.00 CEST…… commentsOctober 2021Down the rabbit holeDegrees of separation:


what connects Ana de Armas to Joan Didion?From Knives Out to Joan Didion via Herman Hupfeld: we go down the rabbit hole of the Bond star’s career9 Oct 2021 14.00 CESTSeptember 202


1Margaret Atwood and JM Coetzee demand release of jailed Iranian writersA letter by PEN America, signed by dozens of high-profile writers and artistic figures, calls for Baktash Abtin,


Keyvan Bajan, and Reza Khandan Mahabadi to be acquitted29 Sept 2021 18.17 CESTNovember 2020Elena Ferrante names her 40 favourite books by female authorsList by pseudonymous author of beloved


Neapolitan novels includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney and several Italian classics21 Nov 2020 01.01 CETJune 2020Book of the dayNight. Sleep. Death. The Stars. by Joyce Carol Oates review – a


portrait of a family and a nation in crisisRunning the gamut from tragic to funny, Joyce Carol Oates’s immersive new novel is an uncomfortable snapshot of modern-day America15 Jun 2020


08.00 CESTJune 2019Books interviewJoyce Carol Oates: ‘It’s a fairytale nightmare to be rejected’The acclaimed author on the power of familial love, ignoring advice to write only about


domestic life, and the recent death of her husband1 Jun 2019 19.00 CESTDecember 2018Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates review – exiled from the futureIn this audacious thought


experiment about the shrinking of human potential, a rebellious teen is sent back to the 50s19 Dec 2018 09.58 CET…… commentsAbout 103 results for Joyce Carol Oates1234...