The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories ed. Daniel Halpern (Viking, November 1999, 0-670-88761-7, $40.00, 608pp, hc, an)
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- · Preface · Daniel Halpern · pr (r)
- · A Gift from Somewhere · Ama Ata Aidoo · ss (r)
- · The Keeper of the Virgins · Hanan Al-Shaykh · ss (r)
- · Amor Divino · Julia Alvarez · ss (r)
- · The Immortals · Martin Amis · ss (r)
- · The Glass Tower · Reinaldo Arenas · ss (r)
- · Wilderness Tips · Margaret Atwood · ss The New Yorker February 18 1991
- · Gorilla, My Love · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara, Random House, 1972
- · My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, and Other True Stories · Russell Banks · ss Vanity Fair (US) 1987
- · G-String · Nicola Barker · ss (r)
- · Evermore · Julian Barnes · ss The New Yorker November 13 1995
- · Aren’t You Happy for Me? · Richard Bausch · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1993
- · In Amalfi · Ann Beattie · ss (r)
- · Rara Avis · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss (r)
- · Mr. Green · Robert Olen Butler · ss (r)
- · The Fat Man in History · Peter Carey · ss (r)
- · The Courtship of Mr. Lyon · Angela Carter · ss Vogue (UK) 1979
- · Are These Actual Miles? · Raymond Carver · ss Esquire May 1972, as “What Is It?”
- · The Old Man Slave and the Mastiff · Patrick Chamoiseau · ss (r)
- · Dharma · Vikram Chandra · ss The Paris Review #130, Spring 1994
- · Never Marry a Mexican · Sandra Cisneros · ss (r)
- · The Prospect from the Silver Hill · Jim Crace · ss Continent by Jim Crace, Heinemann, 1986
- · Night Women · Edwidge Danticat · ss (r)
- · The House Behind · Lydia Davis · ss (r)
- · All Because of the Mistake · Daniele Del Giudice · ss (r)
- · Ysrael · Junot Diaz · ss Story Autumn 1995
- · Betrayal · Patricia Duncker · ss Sinister Wisdom #46, 1992
- · Reflections of Spring · Duong Thu Huong · ss (r)
- · The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor · Deborah Eisenberg · ss The New Yorker December 5 1994
- · The Twenty-Seventh Man · Nathan Englander · ss Story Summer 1998
- · The Parakeet · Victor Erofeyev · ss (r)
- · Roberto Narrates · Peter Esterhazy · ss (r)
- · My Father, the Englishman, and I · Nuruddin Farah · ss (r)
- · Optimists · Richard Ford · ss The New Yorker March 30 1987
- · The Story of the Lizard Who Had the Habit of Dining on His Wives · Eduardo Galeano · ss (r)
- · The Hammam · Herve Guibert · ss (r)
- · Escort · Abdulrazak Gurnah · ss (r)
- · Midnight and I’m Not Famous Yet · Barry Hannah · ss Esquire July 1975
- · Portrait of the Avant-Garde · Peter Høeg · ss (r)
- · Moving House · Pawel Huelle · ss (r)
- · A Family Supper · Kazuo Ishiguro · ss Esquire March 1990
- · Encounter · Roy Jacobsen · ss (r)
- · The First Day · Edward P. Jones · ss Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones, William Morrow, 1992
- · Remember Young Cecil · James Kelman · ss Scottish Short Stories 1975, Collins, 1975
- · Intimacy · Hanif Kureishi · ss The New Yorker May 11 1998
- · The Stump-Grubber · Torgny Lindgren · ss (r)
- · Wish · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker August 15 1988
- · Everything in This Country Must · Colum McCann · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1998
- · Pornography · Ian McEwan · ss The New Review February 1976
- · Behind the Blue Curtain · Steven Millhauser · ss The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser, Poseidon, 1990
- · Willing · Lorrie Moore · ss The New Yorker May 14 1990
- · The Lifeguard · Mary Morris · ss (r)
- · The Canebrake · Mohammed Mrabet · ss (r)
- · The Management of Grief · Bharati Mukherjee · ss Fiction Network 1988
- · Muradhan and Selvihan or The Tale of the Crystal Kiosk · Murathan Mungan · ss (r)
- · The Elephant Vanishes · Haruki Murakami; translated by Jay Rubin · nv The New Yorker November 18 1991
- · Mark of Satan · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Antæus #75/76, Fall 1994
- · In the Shadow of War · Ben Okri · ss (r)
- · Where the Jackals Howl · Amos Oz · ss (r)
- · The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII · Victor Pelevin · ss The Blue Lantern by Victor Pelevin, Harbord, 1996
- · Talking Dog · Francine Prose · ss The Yale Review April 1992
- · The Free Radio · Salman Rushdie · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1983
- · Africa Kills Her Sun · Ken Saro-Wiwa · ss (r)
- · The Ring · Ingo Schulze · ss (r)
- · Learning to Swim · Graham Swift · ss Learning to Swim and Other Stories by Graham Swift, London Magazine Editions, 1982
- · A Riddle · Antonio Tabucchi · ss (r)
- · Minutes of Glory · Ngugi Wa Thiong’o · ss (r)
- · On the Golden Porch · Tatyana Tolstaya · ss The Borzoi Reader January 1989
- · John-Jin · Rose Tremain · ss (r)
- · Who, Me a Bum? · Luisa Valenzuela · ss (r)
- · Cinnamon Skin · Edmund White · ss The New Yorker August 21/August 28 1995
- · You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town · Zoe Wicomb · ss (r)
- · Doc’s Story · John Edgar Wideman · ss Esquire August 1986
- · The Farm · Joy Williams · ss Antæus #35, Autumn 1979
- · Dirt Angel · Jeanne Wilmot · ss North American Review March 1985
- · The Green Man · Jeanette Winterson · ss The New Yorker June 26/July 3 1995
- · The Night in Question · Tobias Wolff · ss The New Yorker April 22 1996
- · The Child Who Raised Poisonous Snakes · Can Xue; translated by Ronald R. Janssen & Jian Zhang · ss Conjunctions #18, 1992
translated from the Chinese (Harvest Jun ’91).
- · Helix · Banana Yoshimoto · ss (r)
- · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg (r)
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