New York Review X 2

Joyce Carol Oates has been a regular reviewer for the New York Review of Books, contributing nearly fifty review-essays since the early nineties.

JCO’s latest are reviews of Boxing: A Cultural History in the May 29 NYRB: “As Kasia Boddy’s masterwork of bricolage sweeps on, there comes to be something wonderfully Joycean—oceanic, indefatigable, slightly deranged—in the very quantity of data she has amassed.”

And for the June 12 issue, reviewing Salman Rushdie’s newest novel: “Though The Enchantress of Florence … is being described as a ‘historical’ novel, readers in expectation of a conventional ‘historical novel’ should be forewarned: this is ‘history’ jubilantly mixed with postmodernist magic realism. The veteran performer-author is too playful and too much the exuberant stylist to incorporate much of deadpan ‘reality’ into his ever-shifting, ever-teasing narrative of the power of enchantment of cultural opposites….”