“The demands of living have consequences,” a haunted young mother says in Joy Williams’s 1978 novel, “The Changeling,” “and that is called fate.” The woman’s brother-in-law, a frightening man with ...

DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued a Silver Alert early Sunday morning for a missing 83-year-old Dandridge woman. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Joy ...

At its best, Joy Williams’s “The Pelican Child” is delightfully unhinged; at its worst, willfully weird and repetitive. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...