The collected stories of Katherine Anne Porter. Go Little Book. Flowering Judas and other stories. Maria Concepción -- Virgin Violeta -- The martyr -- Magic -- Rope -- He -- Theft -- That tree -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall -- Flowering Judas -- The cracked looking-glass -- Hacienda -- Pale horse, pale rider. Old mortality -- Noon wine -- Pale horse, pale rider -- The leaning tower and other stories. The old order. The source -- The journey -- The witness -- The circus -- The last leaf -- The fig tree -- The grave -- The downward path to wisdom -- A day's work -- Holiday -- The leaning tower.

Essays, reviews, and other writings. "I needed both ..." -- Critical. The days before -- Reflections on Willa Cather. A note on The Troll Garden -- Gertrude Stein: three views. "Everybody is a real one" -- Second Wind -- The wooden umbrella -- "It is hard to stand in the middle" -- Eudora Welty and A Curtain of Green -- The Winged skull -- On a criticism of Thomas Hardy -- E.M. Forster -- Virginia Woolf -- D.H. Lawrence. Quetzalcoatl -- A wreath for the gamekeeper -- "The laughing heat of the sun" -- The art of Katherine Mansfield -- The hundredth role -- Dylan Thomas. "A death of days ..." -- -"A fever chart ..." -- "In the morning of the poet ..." -- A most lively genius -- Orpheus in Purgatory -- In memoriam. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) -- James Joyce (1882-1941) -- Sylvia Beach (1887-1962) -- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964).

Personal and particular. On writing. My first speech -- "I must write from memory ..." -- No plot, my dear, no story -- "Writing cannot be taught ..." -- The situation of the writer. The situation in American writing -- Transplanted writers -- The international exchange of writers -- The author on her work. No masters or teachers -- On "Flowering Judas" -- "The only reality ..." -- "Noon Wine": the sources -- Notes on the Texas I remember -- Portrait: Old South -- A Christmas story -- Audubon's happy land -- The flower of flowers -- A note on Pierre-Joseph Redouré -- A house of my own -- The necessary enemy -- "Marriage is belonging" -- A defense of Circe -- St. Augustine and the bullfight -- Act of faith: 4 July 1942 -- The future is now -- The never-ending wrong.

Mexican. Why I write about Mexico -- Reports from Mexico City, 1920-1922. The new man and the new order -- The Fiesta of Guadalupe -- The funeral of General Benjamin Hill -- Children of Xochitl -- The Mexican trinity -- Where presidents have no friends -- In a Mexican patio -- Leaving the Petate -- The charmed life -- Corridos -- Sor Juana: a portrait of the poet -- Notes on the life and death of a hero -- A Mexican chronicle, 1920-1943. Blasco Ibanez on "Mexico in Revolution" -- Paternalism and the Mexican problem -- La Conquistadora -- ¡Ay, Que chamaco! -- Old gods and new messiahs -- Diego Rivera. These pictures must be seen -- Rivera's personal revolution -- Parvenu -- History on the wing -- thirty long years of revolution -- Autobiographical. About the author -- The land that is nowhere.