Kathleen Snodgrass

on Don’t Worry about the Kids by Jay Neugeboren

on Wet Places at Noon by Lee K. Abbott

on Dark Waves and Light Matter by Albert Goldbarth

Plausible Abodes (on What We Come in For by Richard Lundquist; Graveyard of the Atlantic by Alyson Hagy; Travel Advisory: Stories of Mexico by David Lida; Among Prisoners by Frank Manley; and The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks by Russell Banks)

Crass Casualty (on Casualties by Ron Rash; Marked Men by Michael C. White; Glory Goes and Gets Some: Stories by Emily Carter; Troublemakers by John McNally; and Scar Vegas and Other Stories by Tom Paine)

Knit One, Purl Two (on Who Is My Neighbor? by Minta Sue Berry; Yellow by Don Lee; The Hunger Bone: Rock and Roll Stories by Debra Marquart; Faithless: Tales of Transgression by Joyce Carol Oates; and My Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories by Carol Bly)

Supporting Roles (on Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling by Maura Stanton; The Price You Pay by Ellen Winter; Leaving the Neighborhood and Other Stories by Lucy Ferriss; & The Practical Heart: Four Novellas by Allan Gurganus)

Attention Must Be Paid (on The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits by Emma Donoghue; The Caprices by Sabina Murray; Dear Paramount Pictures by Iqbal Pittalwala; and Pittsburgh Stories: Selected Stories, Volume 2 by Clark Blaise)

Artful Distortions (on Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime by Marjorie Sandor; The Half-Mammals of Dixie by George Singleton; Eyesores by Eric Shade; Speed-Walk and Other Stories by Suzanne Greenberg; Pulpwood by Scott Ely; and Live Cargo by Pauls Toutonghi)

The Ties That Bind (on Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis; In the River Province by Lisa Sandlin; Little Edens by Barbara Klein Moss; Sea Dogs by John Bensko; and Little Black Book of Stories by A. S. Byatt)

Between a Rock and a Hard Place (on Damned If I Do by Percival Everett; What You’ve Been Missing by Janet Desaulniers; The Pacific and Other Stories by Mark Helprin; and Sorry I Worried You by Gary Fincke)

On the Edge (on The Train to Lo Wu by Jess Row; The Apple’s Bruise by Lisa Glatt; People I Wanted to Be by Gina Ochsner; We’re in Trouble by Christopher Coake; and Other Electricities by Ander Monson)

Let’s Pretend (on Lines of Truth and Conversation by Joan Alexander; Carrying the Torch by Brock Clarke; Copy Cats by David Crouse; and If the Sky Falls by Nicholas Montemarano)

No Place Like Home (on The Woman in the Woods: Linked Stories by Ann Joslin Williams; You Won’t Remember This: Stories by Kate Blackwell; Thoreau’s Laundry by Ann Harleman; The View From Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro)

Time After Time (on Our Former Lives in Art by Jennifer S. Davis; The Gateway: Stories by T. M. McNally; Tell Borges If You See Him: Tales of Contemporary Somnambulism by Peter LaSalle)