Kalawar

Nathaniel Rich

Who really killed Abdur, an Afghan goatherd-turned-informant?

S. faux

Edith Pearlman

The metamorphosis of an unusual love

The Piñata

David Rowell

An unexpected act of violence at a children’s party in the suburbs

Paradise

David Guterson

A fledgling romance in the Washington mountains, and another, doomed love affair that cannot be forgotten

Mountain People

Ralph Lombreglia

The perils of stealing on Christmas day …

Virgin Summer

John Rolfe Gardiner

We Were Angry

Jennifer S. Davis

A woman’s disappearance roils an insular southern town

Joint Ventures

Kate Sullivan

An American in Hong Kong, lonely amid the masses

The Games Room

Nadine Gordimer

Goodbyes

Cristina Henriquez

A return to Panama and a life left behind

The Illuminationist

Hooman Majd

Everyone has faith, but who are the real believers?

Out of Order

Mark Polanzak

Adonis

Jerome Charyn

Arising

Josh Emmons

Snow White

Antonya Nelson

Boy

Bret Anthony Johnston

(for Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”)

Midnight, Tuesday

Alix Ohlin

High on a Hill

David Huddle

A Series of Photographs Against a White Curtain

Maud Casey

The Gypsy Chooses the Whatever Card

Ann Beattie

The New Generation

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The posthumous tale of a Russian professor’s nightmarish encounter with a former student

Honey

Roxana Robinson

Ice

Lily Tuck

Q&A With Ralph Lombreglia

Vanessa Schipani

Ralph Lombreglia answers questions about his short story "Unrippable" in the Autumn 2009 issue of The American Scholar.

Unrippable

Ralph Lombreglia

Ground Rule

Patricia Volk

Without Wendy

Roberta Silman

Promises, promises

Joseph O'Neill

The Art of Human Surveillance

Bradford Tice

Making Good

Lore Segal

Happy with Crocodiles

Jim Shepard

Symbols

Sheila Kohler

Me and Big Foot

Jill McCorkle

The Leap

Roxana Robinson

The House at Belle Fontaine

Lily Tuck

Tamarack State

Andrea Barrett

North of Ordinary

John Rolfe Gardiner

Plum Creek

Laura Furman

Wheeling

Ann Beattie

Cowboys and Indians

Louis Begley

The Preacher’s Wife

Dennis McFarland