AT THE GATES OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM by <i> Amy Hempel (Alfred A. Knopf: $17.95; 135 pp.; </i>
“The stories are again smartly observed, cryptically titled, the prose as tight as if it fears spilling a single drop.â€
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