Book Review Where William Styron’s 1990 memoir, Darkness Visible, served as a stark warning against the tranquilizers that deepened his depression, Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation offers a radical antithesis. Her protagonist doesn’t flee from...

Book Review I decided to buy my first Ace Atkins novel lured by the promise of a 1980s setting and blurbs hailing him as the “poet laureate of Southern hustlers.” His prolific backlist suggested a certain mastery, and I was hoping for a strong protagonist in...