Introduction / William Abrahams
Robinson Crusoe Liebowitz / Leonard Michaels
Small sounds and tilting shadows / Judith Rascoe
The destruction of the goetheanum / James Salter
Subpoena / Donald Barthelme
The dead / Joyce Carol Oates
Talking horse / Bernard Malamud
The jewels of the cabots / John Cheever
Brownstone / Renata Adler
Alternatives / Alice Adams
The faithful / James Alan McPherson
Usurpation (other people's stories) / Cynthia Ozick
Are you a doctor? / Raymond Carver
His son, in his arms, in light, aloft / Harold Brodkey
I-80 Nebraska, M. 490- M.205 / John Sayles
The Richard Nixon Freischutz rag / Guy Davenport
Night March / Tim O'Brien
Last Courtesies / Ella Leffland
The kugelmass episode / Woody Allen
The schreuderspitze / Mark Helprin
My father's jokes / Patricia Zelver
Rough strife / Lynne Sharon Schwartz
A silver dish / Saul Bellow.
