Call if you need me / Raymond Carver -- Habibi / Ruth Gershon -- Famous people / Orhan Pamuk -- Fit mother / Peter Ho Davies -- Then and now / Daniel Meadows -- Exchange of pleasant words / Aleksandar Hemon -- Uncle Ed / Keith Fleming -- Going abroad / W. G. Sebald -- The furnace / Lydia Davis -- Closer / David Malouf -- Asking for it / James Hamilton-Paterson -- First cut / Jonathan Kaplan