Tag Archives: Joyce Carol Oates

Darkness at Noon in Trump’s America

By Robin Bates | Published: June 9, 2025

Koestler’s novel “Darkness at Noon” applies only too well to rightwing “intellectual” and fascist advocate Curtis Yarvin.

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When Hate Groups Devour Their Own

By Robin Bates | Published: January 18, 2021

Conspiratorial hate is feeding on itself. Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates both describe the process.

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Can Poetry Stop This Man?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 22, 2017

Poetry may not have been able to stop Donald Trump, but it has its ways of mounting resistance. Poems by Tennyson, Auden, and Yeats explain how.

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Literature Fills Your Life with Color

By Robin Bates | Published: March 9, 2015

Having literature always playing in the back of your mind causes the world to pulsate with meaning.

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Raised in Foster Care, Saved by Oates

By Robin Bates | Published: July 10, 2014

Joyce Carol Oates’ Wonderland Quartet provided a lifeline for this woman who grew up in foster care.

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“Alice” Shaped Joyce Carol Oates

By Robin Bates | Published: July 8, 2014

“Alice in Wonderland” is the book that changed the life of Joyce Carol Oates.

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A Champ on the Field, a Thug Elsewhere

By Robin Bates | Published: February 5, 2011

Sports Saturday Although it is a downer on the eve of Super Bowl Sunday, I can’t help but think of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger through the lens of Joyce Carol Oates’ terrifying short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” This is one reason I will be not be rooting for the […]

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