The singular, disconcerting uneasiness that is so characteristic of Joy Williams’ fiction, yet so hard to pin down, is once again dazzlingly on display in her latest collection, “The Pelican Child.” ...

At its best, Joy Williams’s “The Pelican Child” is delightfully unhinged; at its worst, willfully weird and repetitive. By Alexandra Jacobs Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York ...

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “A Small Flame,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2017.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Library of Congress awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Joy Williams, a fiction writer known for her spare prose and dark and incisive worldview. Williams is this year’s ...