- "The All-Surrounding Sky: A Memoir" (1998)
- "Musical Encounters: Documents of 20th-Century Music" (2004)
- "Meet Me in the In-Between: Collected Shorter Works" (2014)
- "In Paradise: A Novel" (2020)
Anthologies
- "The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume E" (2008)
Essays and Articles
- "The Death of the Novel" (1989)
- "The Literature of Exhaustion" (1974)
- "After the Death of God" (1990)
- "The Politics of Literature" (1986)
- "Postmodernism, or, the Logic of Late Capitalism" (1984)
- "Realism and Fiction" (1981)
- "The Culture of Narcissism" (1979)
- "The Age of Discontinuity" (1970)
- "Against Interpretation" (1964)