The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie | 
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King | 
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore | 
Goodbye, Columbus
by Philip Roth | 
A Manual for Cleaning Women
by Lucia Berlin | 
A Place in Time
by Wendell Berry | 
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down
by William Gay | 
Thirteen Ways of Looking
by Colum McCann | 
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
by Amy Hempel | 
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
by Alice Munro | 
The Complete Short Stories
by Ambrose Bierce | 
There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Nights
by Laura van den Berg | 
At the Jim Bridger
by Ron Carlson | 
For a Little While
by Rick Bass | 
The Beggar Maid
by Alice Munro | 
How to Breathe Underwater
by Julie Orringer | 
Dusk and other stories
by James Salter | 
Dancing After Hours
by Andre Dubus | 
Welding with Children
by Tim Gautreaux | 
Break It Down
by Lydia Davis |
A well-intentioned English family unwittingly becomes complicit in state violence while traveling through China. A ploddingly respectable London lawyer chances upon a stash of cocaine and realizes it offers the wealth and status he's always hungered for. A salesman in Africa gets caught up in a riot, and a Palestinian suicide bomber has a moment of self-doubt. Kneale transports readers across continents in a nanosecond, reaching to the heart of faraway societies with rare perceptiveness. With wry humor and razor-sharp satire, these twelve thought-provoking stories illuminate the moral uncertainty of our time.