Meta-Anthology 2014

As I did in late 2013, to some positive response from people whose tastes I trust, here is my meta-anthology for the year 2014. It does not pretend to represent the best stories from that year--not least because the stories are mostly if not entirely from the previous calendar year--but as a kind of meta-analysis of the already anthologized, selecting out from the "best" those that are actually good. This year's meta-anthology is drawn from the Best American Short Stories 2014 (series editor...