Novik never seems to make a misstep, and the thirteen stories here revisit favorite fictional worlds, delve into never-before-revealed...

Amor Towles revisits a character from the wonderful Rules of Civility and also offers multiple New York-set tales. Towles's evocative...

Claire Keegan is one of my favorite writers; in these three stories, she builds layered situations--and then turns them on their heads,...