Trollish New Campus Novel Hates Students & Professors

Missouri Williams’s début novel, “The Doloriad,” which was published in 2022, is full of images that seem intended to disturb and provoke. Its characters—a family of at least six siblings and their parents, who themselves are also siblings, along with a lone schoolmaster—inhabit a world that has recently suffered a cataclysm, which, as far as they know, has wiped out almost all other human life on earth. They are somewhere in Eastern Europe.