Best American series.

Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources

Charity / Charles Baxter -- Indian uprising / Ann Beattie -- Night of the satellite / T.C. Boyle -- After the flood / Peter Cameron -- Long Tom Lookout / Nicole Cullen -- Medium tough / Craig Davidson -- Breeze / Joshua Ferris -- Hover / Nell Freudenberger -- A hand reached down to guide me / David Gates -- At the round earth's imagined corners / Lauren Groff -- Judge's will / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- Evie M. / O.A. Lindsey -- Kattekoppen / Will Mackin -- This is not a love song / Brendan Mathews -- La Pulchra Nota / Molly McNett -- God / Benjamin Nugent -- Mastiff / Joyce Carol Oates -- Next to nothing / Stephen O'Connor -- Madame Bovary's greyhound / Karen Russell -- Antarctica / Laura Van Den Berg