Ian McEwan – Short Works Index
Short Stories
Cocker at the Theatre
First Published: The Incredible Magazine (1971)
Also: Time Out (unknown date); First Love, Last Rites (1975); The Short Stories (1995)
Conversation with a Cupboard Man
First Published: Transatlantic Review 42/43 (1972)
Also: First Love, Last Rites (1975); The Short Stories (1995)
Homemade
First Published: New American Review 15 (1972)
Also: First Love, Last Rites (1975); The Short Stories (1995)
Disguises
First Published: American Review 18 (1973)
Also: First Love, Last Rites (1975); Disguises (1984); The Short Stories (1995)
Solid Geometry
First Published: The New Review Vol 1, No 4 (July 1974)
Also: Fantastic Stories – February 1975; First Love, Last Rites (1975); The Short Stories (1995); Class Work (1995); That Glimpse Of Truth (2014)
Butterflies
First Published: The New Review Vol 1, No 9 (December 1974)
Also: First Love, Last Rites (1975); The Short Stories (1995)
Last Day of Summer
First Published: American Review 22 (1975)
Also: First Love, Last Rites (1975); The Short Stories (1995)
First Love, Last Rites
First Published: First Love, Last Rites (1975)
Also: The Short Stories (1995); A Distant Cry: Stories from East Anglia (2002)
Dead As They Come
First Published: Bananas No 3 (1975)
Also: In Between The Sheets (1978); The Short Stories (1995)
Without Blood
First Published: Encounter 8/75 (1975)
In Between the Sheets
First Published: The New Review Vol. 2, No. 18 (September 1975)
Also: In Between The Sheets (1978); The Short Stories (1995)
Intersection
First Published: TriQuarterly 34 (Fall 1975)
Psychopolis
First Published: Psychopolis (1976)
Also: American Review 26 (1977); In Between The Sheets (1978); The Best American Short Stories 1978 (1978); The Penguin Book Of Modern British Short Stories (1987); The Short Stories (1995)
Pornography
First Published: The New Review Vol 2, No 23 (February 1976)
Also: In Between The Sheets (1978); The 22nd Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1981); The Short Stories (1995)
Untitled
First Published: Tri-Quarterly 35 (Winter 1976)
Also: Ian McEwan (Contemporary Critical Perspectives) by Sebastian Groes (2008)
Reflections of a Kept Ape
First Published: The New Review Vol. 3, No. 32 (November 1976)
Also: In Between The Sheets (1978); The Short Stories (1995)
To and Fro
First Published: The New Review Vol 4, No 39/40 (1977)
Also: In Between The Sheets (1978); The Short Stories (1995)
Deep Sleep, Light Sleeper
First Published: Harper’s and Queen (August 1977)
Two Fragments
First Published: In Between The Sheets (1978)
Also: The Short Stories (1995)
The Letter J for Joy
First Published: Hockney’s Alphabet (1991)
Mother Tongue
First Published: The Guardian Saturday Review (13 October 2001)
Also: Mother Tongue / Moedertaal (2006)
My Purple Scented Novel
First Published: L’Image Volée (18th March 2016)
Also: The New Yorker (28th March 2016); Nutshell (London Review Bookshop – leather bound limited edition – September 2016); My Purple Scented Novel (2018)
Düssel
First Published: New York Review of Books (July 19, 2018)
Also: Machines Like Me (Waterstones Exclusive Edition) (2019)
Excerpts from novels in magazines and anthologies
The Comfort of Strangers
Cosmopolitan (October 1981) + interview
The Child In Time
Esquire (August 1987)
The Innocent
Soho Square 2 (1989) – “Berlin”
Black Dogs
The Mississippi Review Summer 1993 – “I cannot quite remember”
Enduring Love
The New Yorker (19 May 1997) – “Us or Me”
Wild Blue (2000)
Amsterdam
The Guardian (29 October 1998)
Atonement
Areté 1 (1999) – “The Abyssinia Question”
Granta 73 (2001) – “Dunkirk”
Saturday
Granta 88 (2004) – “Lily”
The New Yorker (20 December 2004) – “The Diagnosis”
New Beginnings (2005)
Literary Lunch (2015) – “Henry Perowne’s Seafood Stew”
On Chesil Beach
The New Yorker (25th December 2006)
For You
Granta 100 (2008) includes unfinished libretto of “For You”
Machines Like Me
TLS (12 April 2019) – “As Old As Adam”
Lessons
The New Yorker (8th August 2022) – “Duet”
Other short works (essays, forewords, etc.) in books
The Warehouse: A Writers Theatre (1979)
an essay about ‘Solid Geometry’
William Golding: The Man and His Books (1986)
‘Schoolboys’, an essay about Golding
Exposure: Fiction From The Workshop (1991)
foreword by Ian McEwan
21 Picador Authors Celebrate (1993)
essay ‘US Notebook’
Home & Abroad (1993)
introduction by Ian McEwan
Another Round At The Pillars (1999)
untitled essay
Burning Ice: Art & Climate Change (2006)
essay ‘The Hot Breath Of Our Civilisation’
What We Believe But Cannot Prove (2006)
introduction by Ian McEwan
Private Worlds by Donna McLean (2007)
essay ‘The Art Of Darkness’ by Ian McEwan
Complete Surrender by Dave Sharp (2009)
foreword by McEwan
The Best American Essays 2010 (2010)
essay ‘On John Updike’
Nadav Kander: The Meeting (2019)
essay ‘The Future Of Our Faces’ by McEwan
The Writers (2022)
includes several photos of Ian McEwan and his home
Other short works (essays, interviews, etc.) in magazines & journals
The New Review Vol 4, No. 48 (March 1978)
‘Thank Heavens’ [review of Lewis Carroll: Fragments of a Looking Glass, by Jean Gattegno]
The New Review Vol 5, No. 1 (Summer 1978)
‘The State of Fiction: A Symposium’ (with a 1 page contribution from McEwan)
Quarto No. 8 (July 1980)
review of ‘Duffy’ by Dan Kavanagh (Julian Barnes)
Granta 7 (1983)
‘The Writing of “Or Shall We Die”’
Granta 11 (1984)
‘An Interview With Milan Kundera’
Arete 2 (2000)
‘The Fiction Of Jorge Luis Borges’ co-written with Martin Amis
Arete 9 (2002)
‘Turning Pages: Love & Death’
Arete 15 (2004)
‘Ian McEwan Interviews John Updike’
Arete 30 (2009)
‘Global Warming’
Arete 40 (2013)
‘A Conversation With Questions’ (interviewing Steven Pinker)
Arete 41 (2013)
‘Two Jazz Songs’
Arete 42 (2013)
‘Jazz Song’ + ‘Clayton’
Arete 50 (2016)
‘Lucky Escape From Escape’
Arete 54 (2017)
‘Freud: Eminence Grise’