Curtis White is an American essayist and author. Most of his career has been spent writing experimental fiction, but he has turned recently to writing books of social criticism.

• Heretical Songs (short fiction) (Fiction Collective, 1981)
• Metaphysics in the Midwest (stories) (Sun & Moon, 1989)
• The Idea of Home (Sun & Moon, 1993; reprinted by Dalkey Archive Press, 2004)
• Anarcho-Hindu (FC2, 1995)
• Monstrous Possibility: An Invitation to Literary Politics (Dalkey Archive Press, 1998)
• Memories of My Father Watching TV (Dalkey Archive Press, 1998)
• Requiem (Dalkey Archive Press, 2001)
• The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves (HarperSanFrancisco, 2003)
• America's Magic Mountain (Dalkey Archive Press, 2004)^[1]
• The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work (Polipoint Press, 2006)
• The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature (Polipoint Press, 2009)
• The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers (Melville House Publishing, 2013)^[2]
• We Robots: Staying Human in the Age of Big Data (Melville House Publishing, 2015)^[3]
• Lacking Character: A Novel (Melville House Publishing, March 2018)
• Living in a World that Can’t Be Fixed: Reimagining Counterculture Today (Melville House Publishing, November 2019)^[4]
• Transcendent: Art and Dharma in a Time of Collapse (Melville House Publishing, 2023)

• American Made (co-edited with Mark Leyner and Thomas Glynn, Fiction Collective, 1986)
• An Illuminated History of the Future (FC2, 1989)
• In The Slipstream: An FC2 Reader (FC2, 1999) (co-edited with Ronald Sukenick)

• It's Not About You, a preamble to Lapham's Quarterly's Spring 2023 issue

• "The Middle Mind", in CONTEXT
• "Saving Private Ryan : Don't try to do no thinkin'!", in CONTEXT
• "Chickening Out. Fear and loathing in the academy: Ward Churchill faces the dilemma of the holy whore", essay Archived June 19, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, in Village Voice, 2005.
• "In the Sharkcage with Curtis White" : an interview by Trevor Dodge at Alt-X
• "An Interview with Curtis White" : an interview by Ben Kuebrich for OxMag, May 2007.
• "Largehearted Boy Book Notes essay : a music playlist for The Barbaric Heart at Largehearted Boy
• The spirit of disobedience: an invitation to resistance, Harper's Magazine, April 1, 2006

• Lecture at Clackamas Community College, (March 14, 2007)

• Vol. XVIII, no. 2 of the Review of Contemporary Fiction contains numerous essays on Curtis White's career and books.