The way we live now / by Susan Sontag -- The afterlife / by John Updike -- The Prince / by Craig Nova -- Favor / by Elizabeth Tallent -- Kingdom come / by Mavis Gallant -- The lover of women / by Sue Miller -- The Lie Detector / by Madison Smartt Bell -- Circle of prayer / by Alice Munro -- Dreams of distant lives / by Lee k. Abbott -- Men under water / by Ralph Lombreglia -- Boxes / by Raymond Carver -- The tenant / by Bharati Mukherjee -- The Blue men / by Joy Williams -- Private Debts/Public Holdings / by Kent Haruf -- How I found my brother / by Charles Baxter -- The Other Miller / by Tobias Wolff -- Lady of Spain / by Robert Taylor -- The Interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story / by Daniel Stern -- Milk / by Ron Carlson -- The things they carried / by Tim O'Brien

1. American fiction
2. Short stories
3. American.