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Index
Cover
Also in The New Yorker Centennial Series
Frontispiece
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction by Deborah Treisman
E. B. White, Life Cycle of a Literary Genius (1926)
John O'Hara, Over the River and Through the Wood (1934)
James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939)
Dawn Powell, Such a Pretty Day (1939)
Mary McCarthy, The Weeds (1944)
J. D. Salinger, A Perfect Day for Bananafish (1948)
Jean Stafford, Children Are Bored on Sunday (1948)
Vladimir Nabokov, Symbols and Signs (1948)
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery (1948)
V. S. Pritchett, The Ladder (1949)
John Cheever, The Five-Forty-Eight (1954)
Harold Brodkey, The State of Grace (1954)
Dorothy Parker, I Live on Your Visits (1955)
Saul Bellow, A Father-to-Be (1955)
Bernard Malamud, A Summer’s Reading (1956)
John Updike, The Happiest I’ve Been (1959)
Philip Roth, Defender of the Faith (1959)
Eudora Welty, Where Is the Voice Coming From? (1963)
Donald Barthelme, The Indian Uprising (1965)
Muriel Spark, The House of the Famous Poet (1966)
Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Cafeteria (1968)
Nadine Gordimer, City Lovers (1975)
Mavis Gallant, Voices Lost in Snow (1976)
Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand (1976)
Bruno Schulz, Father’s Last Escape (1978)
Ann Beattie, The Burning House (1979)
Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl (1980)
Elizabeth Hardwick, The Bookseller (1980)
Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From (1982)
Lore Segal, The First American (1983)
Jamaica Kincaid, The Red Girl (1983)
William Maxwell, Love (1983)
Susan Sontag, The Way We Live Now (1986)
Denis Johnson, Emergency (1991)
Thom Jones, The Pugilist at Rest (1991)
Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain (1995)
Junot Díaz, How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie) (1995)
Lorrie Moore, People Like That Are the Only People Here (1997)
Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain (1997)
William Trevor, The Telephone Game (1998)
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Third and Final Continent (1999)
ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2000)
Haruki Murakami, U.F.O. in Kushiro (2001)
Edwidge Danticat, Seven (2001)
John Berger, The Courtesy (2002)
Grace Paley, My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age (2002)
Thomas McGuane, Gallatin Canyon (2003)
Sherman Alexie, What You Pawn I Will Redeem (2003)
Edward P. Jones, A Rich Man (2003)
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Chicxulub (2004)
Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves (2004)
Roberto Bolaño, Last Evenings on Earth (2005)
Alice Munro, Dimension (2006)
David Foster Wallace, Good People (2007)
Donald Antrim, Another Manhattan (2008)
Salman Rushdie, In the South (2009)
Edna O'Brien, Old Wounds (2009)
Don DeLillo, Midnight in Dostoevsky (2009)
Mary Gaitskill, The Other Place (2011)
Robert Coover, Going for a Beer (2011)
George Saunders, Tenth of December (2011)
Nathan Englander, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (2011)
Jennifer Egan, Black Box (2012)
Tessa Hadley, An Abduction (2012)
Steven Millhauser, A Voice in the Night (2012)
Zadie Smith, The Embassy of Cambodia (2013)
Rebecca Curtis, The Christmas Miracle (2013)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Apollo (2015)
Ben Marcus, Cold Little Bird (2015)
Lauren Groff, The Midnight Zone (2016)
Kristen Roupenian, Cat Person (2017)
Joy Williams, Chaunt (2018)
Yiyun Li, All Will Be Well (2019)
Jamil Jan Kochai, Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2020)
Bryan Washington, Visitor (2020)
Ben Lerner, Café Loup (2022)
Jonathan Lethem, Narrowing Valley (2022)
Rivka Galchen, Crown Heights North (2024)
Acknowledgments
Index of Contributors
A Note About the Editor
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