Exodus / James Baldwin --

Design / Richard Bausch --

A new life / Mary Ward Brown --

A father's story / Andre Dubus --

Satan : hijacker of a planet / Louise Erdrich --

Redemption / John Gardner --

The knife / Brendan Gill --

God's typhoon / John Hersey --

The question of rain / William Hoffman --

Grace / James Joyce --

Idiots first / Bernard Malamud --

The retreat / Bobbie Ann Mason --

Pictures of the ice / Alice Munro --

Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor --

Rosa / Cynthia Ozick --

The pure in heart / Peggy Payne --

The rabbi in the attic / Eileen Pollack --

Roof work / Joe Ashby Porter --

Zeal / J.F. Powers --

Defender of the faith / Philip Roth --

A Christian education / Elizabeth Spencer --

Autumn sunshine / William Trevor --

Made in heaven / John Updike --

A still moment / Eudora Welty --

The missing person / Tobias Wolff.