How We Are Hungry

• "Another"
• "What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust," originally published in The Guardian
• "The Only Meaning of the Oil-wet Water," originally published in Zoetrope All-Story
• "On Wanting to Have Three Walls up Before She Gets Home," originally published in The Guardian
• "Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance," originally published in The New Yorker in a slightly different form as "Measuring the Jump"
• "She Waits, Seething, Blooming," originally published in The Guardian
• "Quiet"
• "Your Mother and I," originally published in h2s04
• "Naveed," originally published in The Guardian
• "Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone," originally published in another form in Ninth Letter
• "About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her," originally published in The Guardian
• "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly," originally published in McSweeney's #10
• "There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself"
• "When They Learned to Yelp"
• "After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned," originally published in Speaking with the Angel

"There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself," which consists solely of five blank pages, is not included in the paperback edition.