< p>Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately four to eight short story writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Among those profiled in this volume are: < ul>< li>Italo Calvino < li> Shusako Endo < li>Boris Pilnyak < li> Rabindranath Tagore < li> Tadeusz Borowski < /ul>