In Charlotte Wood’s novel “Stone Yard Devotional,” an atheist burrows into herself while staying in a convent, and ...

The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

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Marie Benedict does. In “The Queens of Crime,” Benedict imagines that five of the female greats of the era, fighting a ...