Contents:

• Introduction by Rudy Wiebe
• The Molesters by Joyce Carol Oates
• On Nimpish Lake by Ethel Wilson
• The Conversion of the Jews by Philip Roth
• The Wind Blows by Katherine Mansfield
• Thanks for the Ride by Alice Munro
• After the Fair by Dylan Thomas
• The Commonplace by George Elliott
• The Field of Blue Children by Tennessee Williams
• The Sin of Jesus by Isaac Babel (translated by Andrew R. MacAndrew)
• Wife-Wooing by John Updike
• Gin and Goldenrod by Malcolm Lowry
• He by Katherine A. Porter
• A Field of Wheat by Sinclair Ross
• That Evening Sun by William Faulkner
• The Chorus Girl by Anton Chekhov (translated by Constance Garnett)
• Black Angels by Bruce J. Friedman
• Rocking-Chair by Morley Callaghan
• The House on the Esplanade by Anne Hébert (translated by Morna Scott Stoddart)
• You Could Look It Up by James Thurber
• After the Storm by Ernest Hemingway
• The Guest by Albert Camus (translated by Justin O’Brien)
• The Post Card by Heinrich Böll (translated by Leila Vennewitz)
• Guests of the Nation by Frank O’Connor
• The Children’s Campaign by Pär Lagerkvist (translated by Albert Bonniers Förlag)
• In a Grove by R. Akutagawa
• The Secret Room by Alain Robbe-Grillet (translated by Bruce Morrissette)
• The Second Death by Graham Greene
• Oolulik by Rudy Wiebe
• The Hard-Headed Collector by Dave Godfrey
• The Hunter Gracchus by Franz Kafka (translated by Willa and Edwin Muir)
• Gimpel the Fool by Isaac B. Singer (translated by Saul Bellow)
• Revelation by Flannery O’Connor