Collects stories by Isabel Allende, James Baldwin, Honoré de Balzac, Georges Bataille, Anne Billat, Harold Brodkey, Robert Coover, Stephen Dixon, Doris Dörrie, Liliana Heker, Gary Indiana, Lázló Kamondy, Margarita Karapanou, Yasunari Kawabata, Milan Kundera, D.H. Lawrence, Wendy Law-Yone, Doris Lessing, Li Ang, Yuri Mamleyev, Abdre Pieyre de Mandiargues, Valeris Martin, Richard Matheson, Eric McCormack, Ian McEwan, Susan Minot, Yukio Mishima, Alberto Moravia, Adolf Muschg, Anaïs Nin, Stan Persky, Elena Poniatowska, Gloria Sawai, Sarah Sheard, Helen Simpson, Armonia Somers, Mario Vargas Llosa, Vicki Viidikas and Eimi Yamada.