Table of Contents

"The Idiot President"
Daniel Alarcón
The New Yorker

"Yurt"
Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
The New Yorker

"Rubiaux Rising"
Steve De Jarnatt
Santa Monica Review

"Beyond the Pale"
Joseph Epstein
Commentary

"A Shadow Table"
Alice Fulton
Tin House

"NowTrends"
Karl Taro Greenfeld
American Short Fiction

"The Farms"
Eleanor Henderson
Agni

"Sagittarius"
Greg Hrbek
Black Warrior Review

"Hurricanes Anonymous"
Adam Johnson
Tin House

"The Anniversary Trip"
Victoria Lancelotta
The Gettysburg Review

"A Man Like Him"
Yiyun Li
The New Yorker

"The Briefcase"
Rebecca Makkai
New England Review

"Magic Words"
Jill McCorkle
Narrative Magazine

"One Dog Year"
Kevin Moffett
Tin House

"Modulation"
Richard Powers
Conjunctions

"Them Old Cowboy Songs"
Annie Proulx
The New Yorker

"Into the Gorge"
Ron Rash
The Southern Review

"Ostracon"
Alex Rose
Ploughshares

"The Peripatetic Coffin"
Ethan Rutherford
American Short Fiction

"Muzungu"
Namwali Serpell
Callaloo