2. A Private Experience (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
3. Little Jack (Anton Chekhov)
4. Mr. Z (Oscar Casares)
5. Devadasi (Rishi Reddi)
6. The Capital of the World (Ernest Hemingway).
I must add this disclaimer that I am not a great fan of Hemingway. People do talk about a lot about his investment in a kind of machismo, but what is often left out of that discussion is his investment in an imperial masculinity. But somehow, I think, this is a story where he is trying to problematize a certain kind of performative aggressive masculinity by showing its inherent violence. Very unlike Hemingway, I must say.
