Joyce Carol Oates Reads “The Frenzy”

The author reads her story from the March 24, 2025, issue of the magazine.
Joyce Carol Oates Reads “The Frenzy”
Illustration by The New Yorker / Source photograph by Leonardo Cendamo / Getty

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Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “The Frenzy,” from the March 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Oates, a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize, among others, is the author of more than seventy books of fiction, including the novel “Butcher” and the story collection “Flint Kill Creek.” A new novel, “Fox,” will be published later this year.