The second American revolution and other essays (1976-1982)

F. Scott Fitzgerald's case -- Edmund Wilson: this critic and this gin and these shoes -- Christopher Isherwood's kind -- On prettiness -- The Oz books -- Lessing's science fiction -- Sciascia's Italy -- V.S. Pritchett as "critic" -- Thomas Love Peacock" the novel of ideas -- Who makes the movies? -- Sex is politics -- Pink triangle and yellow star -- How to find God and make money -- Rich kids -- Theodore Roosevelt: an American sissy -- The State of the Union revisited (1980) -- The real two-party system -- The second American revolution -- A note on Abraham Lincoln.

Broca's brain : reflections on the romance of science

Introduction -- Science and human concern. Broca's brain ; Can we know the universe? Reflections on a grain of salt ; The world which beckons like a liberation ; In praise of science and technology -- The paradoxers. Night walkers and mystery mongers: sense and nonsense at the edge of science ; White dwarfs and little green men ; Venus and Dr. Velikovsky ; Norman Bloom, messenger of God -- Science fiction -- a personal view -- Our neighborhood in space. The sun's family ; A planet named George ; Life in the solar system ; Titan, the enigmatic moon of Saturn ; The climates of planets ; Kallipe and the Kaaba ; The golden age of planetary exploration -- The future. "Will you walk a little faster?" ; Via cherry tree, to Mars ; Experiments in space ; In defense of robots ; The past and future of American astronomy ; The quest for extraterrestrial intelligence -- Ultimate questions. A Sunday sermon ; Gott and the turtles ; The amniotic universe -- References -- Index.

So far from God : a novel

The god of small things

The profane art : essays and reviews

SPQR VIII : the river god's vengeance

SPQR 8

River god's vengeance

The future is female! : 25 classic science fiction stories by women, from pulp pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin

Introduction / The conquest of Gola / Space episode / That only a mother / In hiding / Contagion / The inhabited men / Ararat / All cats are gray / Created he them / Mr. Sakrison’s halt / All the colors of the rainbow / Pelt / Car pool / For sale, reasonable / Birth of a gardener / The tunnel ahead / The new you / Another rib / When I was Miss Dow / Baby, you were great / The barbarian / The last flight of Dr. Ain / Nine lives / Biographical notes.

American fantastic tales : terror and the uncanny from the 1940s to now

Terror and the uncanny from the 1940s to now

American fantastic tales : 1940s to now

1940s to now

Library of America ;

Evening primrose / Smoke ghost / mysteries of the Joy Rio / refugee / Mr. Lupescu / Miriam / Midnight / Torch Song / daemon lover / circular valley / I'm scared / Vane sisters / April witch / Black country / Trace / Where the woodbine twineth / Nightmare / I have no mouth, and I must scream / Prey / events at Poroth Farm / Hanka / Linnaeus forgets / Novelty / Mr. Fiddlehead / Family / last feast of Harlequin / short guide to the city / general who is dead / Sea Oak / long hall on the top floor / Nocturne / God of Dark Laughter / Pop art / Pansu / Dangerous laughter / chambered fruit / wavering knife / Stone animals / Pat Moore / little stranger / Dial tone

Short stories, five decades

Short stories. Selections

The eighty-yard run -- Borough of cemeteries -- Main currents of American thought -- Second mortgage -- Sailor off the Bremen -- Strawberry ice cream soda -- Welcome to the city -- The girls in their summer dresses -- Search through the streets of the city -- The monument -- I stand by Dempsey -- God on Friday night -- Return to Kansas City -- Triumph of justice -- No jury would convict -- The lament of Madame Rechevsky -- The deputy sheriff -- Stop pushing, Rocky -- March, march on down the field -- Free conscience, void of offence -- Weep in years to come -- The city was in total darkness -- Night, birth and opinion -- Preach on the dusty roads -- Hamlets of the world -- Medal from Jerusalem -- Walking wounded -- Night in Algiers -- Gunners' passage -- Retreat -- Act of faith -- The man with one arm -- The passion of Lance Corporal Hawkins -- The dry rock -- Noises in the city.

The Indian in depth of night -- Material witness -- Little Henry Irving -- The house of pain -- A year to learn the language -- The Greek general -- The green nude -- The climate of insomnia -- Goldilocks at graveside -- Mixed doubles -- A wicked story -- Age of reason -- Peter Two -- The sunny banks of the river Lethe -- The man who married a French wife -- Voyage out, voyage home -- Tip on a dead jockey -- The inhabitants of Venus -- In the French style -- Then we were three -- God was here but He left early -- Love on a dark street -- Small Saturday -- Pattern of love -- Whispers in bedlam -- Where all things wise and fair descend -- Full many a flower -- Circle of light.

American fantastic tales : terror and the uncanny from Poe to the pulps

Library of America ;

Somnambulism : a fragment / The adventure of the German student / Berenice / Young Goodman Brown / The Tartarus of maids / What was it? : a mystery / The legend of Monte del Diablo / The moonstone mass / His unconquerable enemy / In dark New England days / The yellow wall paper / The black dog / Ma'ame Pélagie / Thurlow's Christmas story / The Repairer of Reputations / The Dead Valley / The little room / The striding place / An itinerant house / Luella Miller / Grettir at Thorhall-stead / Yuki-Onna / For the blood is the life / The moonlit road / Lukundoo / The shell of sense / The jolly corner / Golden baby / Afterward / Consequences / The shadowy third / Absolute evil / Unseen-- unfeared / The curious case of Benjamin Button / The curse of Everard Maundy / The king of the cats / The jelly-fish / Mr. Arcularis / The Black Stone / Passing of a god / The panelled room / The thing on the doorstep / Genius Loci / The cloak / Biographical notes -- Note on the texts -- Notes.

The Oxford book of American short stories

Rip Van Winkle / Peter Rugg -- Missing man / Wives of the dead / Paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids / Tell-tale heart / Ghost in the mill / Cannibalism in the cars / White heron / Storm / Sheriff's children / Yellow wallpaper / Middle years / In a far country / Old woman Magoun / Little regiment / A journey / Strength of God

House on Mango Street ; What Sally said ; Linoleum roses ; A house of my own / Town Smokes

Death in the desert / Blood-burning moon / A clean, well-lighted place / An alcoholic case / Girl with a pimply face / He / That evening sun / Sweat / Red-headed baby / Man who was almost a man / A distant episode / A late encounter with the enemy / Sonny's blues / Battle Royal / There will come soft rains / Rain in the heart / Where is the voice coming from?

Lecture / My son the murderer / Something to remember me by / Death of Justina / Texts / School / Alaska / Are these actual miles? / Yellow Woman / Shawl / Heat / Hunters in the snow / Things they carried / Big Bertha stories / Fever / Management of grief / Two kinds / Fleur / Gravity

Collected early stories

Short stories. Selections. 2013

Updike : collected early stories

Library of America ;

Ace in the hole -- Friends from Philadelphia -- A game of Botticelli -- Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth -- Dentistry and doubt -- The kid's whistling -- Toward evening -- Snowing in Greenwich Village -- Who made yellow roses yellow? -- His finest hour -- Sunday teasing -- The lucid eye in silver town -- A trillion feet of gas -- Incest -- A gift from the city -- Intercession -- The alligators -- The happiest I've been -- Walter Briggs -- The persistence of desire -- Still life -- Flight -- Should wizard hit mommy? -- Dear Alexandros -- A sense of shelter -- Wife-wooing -- Pigeon feathers -- Home -- Archangel -- The sea's green sameness -- You'll never know, dear, how much I love you -- The astronomer -- A & P -- The doctor's wife -- Lifeguard -- The crow in the woods -- The blessed man of Boston, my grandmother's thimble, and Fanning Island -- Packed dirt, churchgoing, a dying cat, a traded car -- Unstuck -- In football season -- The Indian -- A madman -- My uncle's death -- Solitaire -- Leaves -- The stare -- Museums and women -- Avec la bébé-sitter -- Four sides of one story -- The morning -- At a bar in Charlotte Amalie -- The Christian roommates -- My lover has dirty fingernails -- Eclipse -- Harv is plowing now -- The music school -- The rescue -- The dark -- God speaks -- The Bulgarian poetess -- The family meadow -- Man and daughter in the cold -- The hermit -- During the Jurassic -- The witnesses -- The pro -- The slump -- Under the microscope -- The corner -- The day of the dying rabbit -- I am dying, Egypt, dying -- Cemeteries -- The deacon -- I will not let thee go, except thou bless me -- One of my generation -- The hillies -- The orphaned swimming pool -- Plumbing -- The carol sing -- Minutes of the last meeting -- The baluchitherium -- The Tarbox police -- When everyone was pregnant -- The beloved -- The invention of the horse collar -- Jesus on Honshu -- Commercial -- The gun shop -- Believers -- How to love America and leave it at the same time -- Nevada -- Son -- Daughter, last glimpses of -- Ethiopia -- Transaction -- Augustine's concubine -- Killing -- The chaste planet -- A constellation of events -- The man who loved extinct mammals -- Problems -- Love song, for a Moog synthesizer.