Short Fiction

• Judy Budnitz, “Where We Come From”
• Dino Buzzati, “The Prohibited Word”
• Dino Buzzati, “The Time Machine“
• Italo Calvino, “Daughters of the Moon“
• John Cheever, “The Swimmer“
• Kathryn Davis, “Descent of the Aquanauts“
• Lydia Davis, “The Fish”
• Jennifer Egan, “Black Box“
• Brian Evenson, “Windeye“
• Karen Joy Fowler, “The Pelican Bar“
• Roxane Gay, “I Am a Knife“
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”
• Amelia Gray, “Babies”
• Amelia Gray, “Code of Operation: Snake Farm“
• Amelia Gray, “Dinner”
• Amy Hempel, “Hostess”
• Amy Hempel, “What Were the White Things”
• Sheila Heti, “Mermaid in the Jar“
• Kazuo Ishiguro, “A Family Supper”
• Shelley Jackson, “Sleep”
• Franz Kafka, “A Message from the Emperor“
• Etgar Keret, “Crazy Glue“
• Etgar Keret, “Hat Trick“
• Daniil Kharms, “A Fable”
• Daniil Kharms, “There once was a mechanic . . .”
• Kelly Link, “Stone Animals“
• Kelly Link, “Valley of the Girls”
• Lydia Millet, “Lady and the Dragon”
• Lydia Millet, “Walking Bird“
• Vladimir Nabokov, “A Visit to the Museum”
• Vladimir Nabokov, “Symbols and Signs“
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Ghosts“
• Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?“
• Flannery O’Connor, “Revelation”
• Yoko Ogawa, “Fruit Juice”
• George Saunders, “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline”
• George Saunders, “Sea Oak“
• George Saunders, “The Semplica Girl Diaries“
• Karin Tidbeck, “Beatrice”
• Karin Tidbeck, “Cloudberry Jam”
• Karin Tidbeck, “Rebecka”

Nonfiction

• Charles Baxter, “On Defamiliarization”
• Robert Boswell, “The Half-Known World”
• Kate Bernheimer, “Fairy Tale is Form, Form is Fairy Tale“
• Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Message About Messages“
• Gary Lutz, “The Sentence is a Lonely Place“
• Horace Miner, “Body Ritual Among the Nacerima“