The New World is a collection of short stories by Russell Banks. It was first published in 1978.

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• "The Custodian" – first appeared in New Boston Review
• "The Perfect Couple" – Fiction International, nos. 6/7 (1976)
• "A Sentimental Education"
• "About the Late Zimma (Penny) Cate: Selections from Her Loving Husband's Memory Hoard" – TriQuarterly, Fall 1977
• "The Conversation" – Shenandoah, Fall 1977
• "The Rise of the Middle Class" – Canto, September 1977
• "Indisposed" – Matrix, June 1978
• "The Caul" – Mississippi Review, Spring 1978
• "The Adjutant Bird" – Lillabulero 1, no. 3 (July 1967)
• "The New World" – Ploughshares 3, no. 2 (1976)

• 1978 in literature

• Russell Banks, The New World, 1978. ISBN 0-252-00722-0