The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories

Following the immense success of The Art of the Tale, Daniel Halpern has assembled the next generation of short-story writers—those born after 1937—to create a companion volume, The Art of the Story. Attesting to the depth, range, and continued popularity of short fiction, this collection includes seventy-eight contributors from thirty-five countries. The Art of the Story combines the best of the established masters as well as the fresh, new voices of writers whose work has seldom been translated into English.

Includes:

Gift from somewhere by Ama Ata Aidoo
Keeper of the virgins by Hanan Al-Shaykh
Amor divino by Julia Alvarez
Immortals by Martin Amis
Glass tower by Reinaldo Arenas
Wilderness tips by Margaret Atwood
Gorilla, my love by Toni Cade Bambara
My mother’s memoirs, my father’s lie, and other true stories by Russell Banks
G-string by Nicola Barker
Evermore by Julian Barnes
Aren’t you happy for me? by Richard Bausch
In Amalfi by Ann Beattie
Rara avis by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Mr. Green by Robert Olen Butler
Fat man in history by Peter Carey
Courtship of Mr. Lyon by Angela Carter
Are these actual miles? by Raymond Carver
Old man slave and the mastiff by Patrick Chamoiseau
Dharma by Vikram Chandra
Never marry a Mexican by Sandra Cisneros
Prospect from the silver hills by Jim Crace
Night women by Edwidge Danticat
House behind by Lydia Davis
All because of the mistake by Daniele del Giudice
Ysrael by Junot Díaz
Betrayal by Patricia Duncker
Reflections of spring by Duong Thu Huong
Girl who left her sock on the floor by Deborah Eisenberg
Twenty-seventh man by Nathan Englander
Parakeet by Victor Erofeyev
Roberto narrates by Péter Esterházy
My father, the Englishman, and I by Nuruddin Farah
Optimists by Richard Ford
Story of the lizard who had the habit of dining on his wives by Eduardo Galeano
Hammam by Hervé Guibert
Escort by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Midnight and I’m not famous yet by Barry Hannah
Portrait of the avant-garde by Peter Høeg
Moving house by Pawel Huelle
Family supper by Kazuo Ishiguro
Encounter by Roy Jacobsen
First day by Edward P. Jones
Remember young Cecil by James Kelman
Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Stump-grubber by Torgny Lindgren
Wish by Bobbie Ann Mason
Everything in this country must by Colum McCann
Pornography by Ian McEwan
Behind the blue curtain by Steven Millhauser
Willing by Lorrie Moore
Lifeguard by Mary Morris
Canebrake by Mohammed Mrabet
Management of grief by Bharati Mukherjee
Muradhan and Selvihan, or, The tale of the crystal kiosk by Murathan Mungan
Elephant vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Mark of Satan by Joyce Carol Oates
In the shadow of war by Ben Okri
Where the jackals howl by Amos Oz
Life and adventures of shed number XII by Victor Pelevin
Talking dog by Francine Prose
Free radio by Salman Rushdie
Africa kills her sun by Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ring by Ingo Schulze
Learning to swim by Graham Swift
Riddle by Antonio Tabucchi
Minutes of glory by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
On the golden porch by Tatyana Tolstaya
John-Jin by Rose Tremain by Who, me a bum? by Luisa Valenzuela
Cinnamon skin by Edmund White
You can’t get lost in Cape Tower by Zoë Wicomb
Doc’s story by John Edgar Wideman
Farm by Joy Williams
Dirt angel by Jeanne Wilmot
Green man by Jeanette Winterson
Night in question by Tobias Wolff
Child who raised poisonous snakes by Can Xue
Helix by Banana Yoshimoto