Short Takes

Wild Nights! By Joyce Carol Oates Ecco, 238 pp., $24.95 This challenging collection - a challenge for the author, that is - lets Joyce Carol Oates display her flair not just as a preeminent fiction writer but as a canny scholar of literature as well. Each of its five short stories requires her to evoke convincingly the stormy psyche and ... (Full article: 651 words)

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