Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/Focus Features Awards season is never without its fair share of crying at the movies. The film stars Jessie Buckley as Agnes, the ...

PART OF A LONG STORY (331 pp.)—Agnes Boulton—Doubleday ($4.50). “There was never a great genius,” said Aristotle, “without a tincture of madness.” Part of Eugene O’Neill’s genius lay in the fact that ...