Essays, Book Reviews, and Other Nonfiction in Newspapers:
"Anne Sexton: Self-Portrait in Poetry and Letters." New York Times Book Review. Reprinted In: The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews. New York: Dutton, 1983. 165-183.
"The Authority of Failure: Scott Fitzgerald's Progress from Voice of the Jazz Age to Hemingway's Butt." Rev. of Love of the Last Tycoon, by F. Scott Fitzgerald and ed. by Matthew Bruccoli, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, by Matthew Bruccoli, and Scott Fitzgerald, by Jeffrey Meyer. Times Literary Supplement Jan. 1996: 3-4.
"Before God Was Love: The Short Stories of Paul Bowles." New York Times Book Review. Reprinted In: The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews. New York: Dutton, 1983. 128-131.
"Behind the Icon." Rev. of The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, by Jacqueline Rose. Times Literary Supplement 21 June 1991: 19.
"The Calendar's New Clothes." New York Times 30 Dec. 1999: A, 27.
"The Charmer Who Lost His Way." Rev. of Go, Said the Bird, by Geoffrey Cottrell. Detroit News 15 Jan. 1967: D, 6.
"Does the Writer Exist?" New York Times Book Review 22 Apr. 1984: 1, 17. Reprinted In: (Woman) Writer. New York: Dutton, 1988. 45-52.
"I'm Not O.K., You're Not O.K." Rev. of The Noonday Demon, by Andrew Solomon. New York Times Book Review 24 June 2001: 9-10.
"A Letter to My Mother, Carolina Oates, on Her 78th Birthday, November 8, 1995." New York Times Magazine 12 May 1996: 48-49.
"My Father, My Fiction." New York Times Magazine 19 Mar. 1989: 44-45.
"The Mysterious Mr. Thoreau." New York Times Book Review 1 May 1988: 1, 31-33.
"On Boxing." New York Times Magazine 16 June 1985: 28-32+.
"On the Student Revolution." Detroit News Magazine 16 Feb. 1969: 14.
"The One Unforgivable Sin." New York Times Book Review 25 July 1993: 3.
"Raising Lady Lazarus." Rev. of Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962, ed. by Karen Kukil. New York Times Book Review 5 Nov. 2000: 10-11.
Rev. of The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, by Jane Smiley. Times Literary Supplement 25 Sep. 1998: 22.
Rev. of Anna's Book, by Barbara Vine. New York Times Book Review 17 Oct. 1993: 37.
Rev. of Cold Snap, by Thom Jones. New York Times Book Review 4 June 1995: 8.
Rev. of Criminal Convictions, by Nicholas Freeling. New York Times Book Review 2 Oct. 1994: 35.
Rev. of The Crocodile Bird, by Ruth Rendell. New York Times Book Review 17 Oct. 1993: 37.
Rev. of Five O'Clock Angel, by Tennessee Williams. Times Literary Supplement 19 Apr. 1991: 8.
Rev. of Great Books, by David Denby. New York Times Book Review 1 Sep. 1996: 10.
Rev. of The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, by Jacqueline Rose. Times Literary Supplement 21 June 1991: 19.
Rev. of Hawksmoor, by Peter Ackroyd. New York Times Book Review 19 Jan. 1986: 3.
Rev. of The Hill Bachelors, by William Trevor. Times Literary Supplement 29 Sep. 2000: 22-23.
Rev. of A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, by Julian Barnes. New York Times Book Review 1 Oct. 1989: 12.
Rev. of Illumination and Night Glare, by Carson McCullers. London Review of Books 2 Sep. 1999: 15.
Rev. of In the Palomar Arms, by Hilma Wolitzer. New York Times Book Review 5 June 1983: 14.
Rev. of Ivy, by Hilary Spurling. New York Times Book Review 9 Dec. 1984: 7.
Rev. of Jean Stafford, by David Roberts. New York Times Book Review 28 Aug. 1988: 3.
Rev. of Joseph Conrad, by Jeffrey Meyers. New York Times Book Review 14 Apr. 1991: 15.
Rev. of Just an Ordinary Day, by Shirley Jackson. New York Times Book Review 29 Dec. 1996: 10.
Rev. of Ladder of Years, by Anne Tyler. Times Literary Supplement 5 May 1995: 22.
Rev. of Later Novels and Other Writings, by Raymond Chandler. New York Times Book Review 21 Dec. 1995: 32.
Rev. of Leading with My Heart, by Virginia Kelley. New York Times Book Review 8 May 1994: 1.
Rev. of The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers, 1937-1943. New York Times Book Review 15 Mar. 1998: 16.
Rev. of Light, by Eva Figes. New York Times Book Review 16 Oct. 1983: 11.
Rev. of Lincoln, by Gore Vidal. New York Times Book Review 3 June 1984: 1.
Rev. of The Magician's Wife, by Brian Moore. Times Literary Supplement 12 Sep. 1997: 7.
Rev. of The Man Who Sold Prayers, by Margaret Creal. New York Times Book Review 13 Mar. 1983: 10.
Rev. of Mysteries of Motion, by Hortense Calisher. New York Times Book Review 6 Nov. 1983: 7.
Rev. of The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. Times Literary Supplement 23 Feb. 1996: 24.
Rev. of The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court, by Peter Hillsman Taylor. Times Literary Supplement 19 Feb. 1993: 21.
Rev. of The Philosopher's Pupil, by Iris Murdoch. New York Times Book Review 17 July 1983: 1.
Rev. of The Progress of Love, by Alice Munro. New York Times Book Review 14 Sep. 1986: 7.
Rev. of Rabbit at Rest, by John Updike. New York Times Book Review 30 Sep. 1990: 1.
Rev. of Scott Fitzgerald, by Jeffrey Meyers. Times Literary Supplement 5 Jan. 1996: 3.
Rev. of Sounding the Territory, by Laurel Goldman. New York Times Book Review 21 Feb. 1982: 1.
Rev. of Stories of John Edgar Wideman and of Skin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write about Race. Times Literary Supplement 29 Nov. 2000: 14.
Rev. of A Theft, by Saul Bellow. New York Times Book Review 5 Mar. 1989: 3.
Rev. of Thinks, by David Lodge. Times Literary Supplement 23 Feb. 2001: 21-22.
Rev. of The Times Are Never So Bad, by Andre Dubus. New York Times Book Review 26 June 1983: 12.
Rev. of Thrones, Dominations, by Dorothy L. Sayers. New York Times Book Review 15 Mar. 1998: 16.
Rev. of Tzili, by Aron Appelfeld. New York Times Book Review 27 Feb. 1983: 9.
Rev. of Undue Influence, by Anita Brookner. Times Literary Supplement 30 July 1999: 19.
Rev. of Unframed Originals, by W.S. Merwin. New York Times Book Review 1 Aug. 1982: 7.
Rev. of When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Times Literary Supplement 31 Mar. 2000: 21-22.
Rev. of Why They Kill, by Richard Rhodes. New York Times Book Review 19 Sep. 1999: 13.
Rev. of Willa Cather, by Janis P. Stout. Times Literary Supplement 25 May 2001: 3-4.
Rev. of Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism, by Joan Ross Acocella. Times Literary Supplement 25 May 2001: 3-4.
Rev. of Wise Children, by Angela Carter. New York Times Book Review 19 Jan. 1992: 7.
Rev. of The World and Other Places, by Jeanette Wintersen. Times Literary Supplement 26 June 1998: 26.
"Richard Wishnetsky: Joyce Oates Supplies a Missing View." Detroit Free Press 6 Mar. 1966: 1-2, 12-13.
"Stories That Define Me: The Making of a Writer." New York Times Book Review 11 July 1982: 1, 15-16.
"A Terrible Beauty Is Born. How?" New York Times Book Review 11 Aug. 1985: 1+.
"To Invigorate Literary Mind, Start Moving Literary Feet." New York Times 19 July 1999: E, 1.
"Trespassing." New York Times Magazine 8 Oct. 1995: 83.
"Why Is Your Writing So Violent?" New York Times Book Review 29 Mar. 1981: 15, 35.
"Words Fail, Memory Blurs, Life Wins." New York Times 31 Dec. 2001: A, 11.
"The World's Worst Critics." New York Times Book Review 18 Jan. 1987: 1, 30.
"The Writing Life: Tales out of School." Washington Post 16 Mar. 1997: X, 1.