Joyce Carol Oates

The need for love—obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable—takes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, a new collection of stories by the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates.In the suspenseful "Strip Poker," a reckless...

Joyce Carol Oates explores with bloodcurdling insight the ties that bind—or worse.In “The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza” a woman’s world is upended when she learns the brutal truth about a family friend’s death—and what her father is capable of....