Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, which is subtitled "Selected Early Stories," offers readers the opportunity to reassess and celebrate Joyce Carol Oates's contributions to the contemporary American short story. Few writers of our time can match her productivity (over four hundred...

We stopped some visitors to London and asked what they were doing. This is what they told us. . . We are here for two days' holiday. We have been to London Bridge, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, 10 Downing Street, Parliament Square, and...

Joyce Carol Oates' short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" written in the late sixties, reveals several explanations of its plot. The story revolves around a young girl being seduced, kidnapped, raped and then killed. The story is purposely vague and that may lead to different interpretations.