Blonde: Is the New Marilyn Monroe Movie an Antiabortion Fever Dream?

Joyce Carol Oates has described Blonde, the film based on her novel of the same name, as “surprisingly feminist.” The author of 58 novels, Oates devoted more than 700 pages to her prodigious fictionalization of Marilyn Monroe’s life, beginning with the young girl Norma Jeane and ending as the tragic Hollywood icon. A finalist for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, Blonde is widely viewed as the prolific writer’s masterpiece. Drawn from the widely known facts of Monroe’s life—her famous film roles, her infamous relationships, and her mysterious death—Oates’s novel is a shocking, horrifying, and engrossing portrait of the… Read Full Article