them | Critical Overview
When them was first published, critics focused, naturally enough, on the contemporary elements of the book, comparing the urban world that Oates described to the one at hand. Reviewing the book for The New York Times Book Review, Robert M. Adams found it to be “an impressive piece of fictional construction,” and he expressed the opinion that it was more “a step forward” than her previous novel. One particular weakness that Adams pointed out was the “extended satire on a group of rather tiresome psychotics supposed to represent the New Left as it flourished in...
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