"This dazzling, genre-defying collection from Jonathan Lethem features seven major stories published since his last collection, along with his best work spanning more than three decades. A major new story, "The Red Sun School of Thoughts," never published elsewhere, follows a teenaged boy coming to terms with figures of authority and power - those both in his own biological family, and in the family he creates for himself. Elsewhere we meet "Super Goat Man," a down-at-heels bohemian superhero; "The Porn Critic," whose accidental expertise wrecks his own romantic aspirations; and "Sleepy People," who pose interpersonal conundrums without ever rousing from their slumber. Fluidly moving between realism and the surreal, the absurd and the mundane, A Different Kind of Tension is a container bursting with life and death, couples in trouble, talking animals, technologies on the fritz. Through it all are people longing to be seen and to connect; to thrive, to love, and be forgiven."-- Provided by publisher

Walking the moons

(1990) --

Program's progress

(1990) --

The speckless cathedral

(1992) --

Forever, said the duck

(1993) --

How we got in town and out again

(1996) --

Five fucks

(1996) --

Sleepy people

(1996) --

The spray

(1998) --

Access fantasy

(1998) --

Children with hangovers

(2002) --

The dystopianist, thinking of his rival, is interrupted by a knock on the door

(2002) --

Super Goat Man

(2004) --

Vivian Relf

(2004) --

Interview with the crab

(2005) --

Lucky Alan

(2007) --

The king of sentences

(2007) --

Proximity people

(2009) --

The dreaming jaw, the salivating ear

(2009) --

Procedure in plain air

(2009) --

The empty room

(2011) --

The porn critic

(2012) --

Guy bleeding all over Skype

(2013) --

Pending vegan

(2014) --

Elevator pitches

(2017) --

The afterlife

(2020) --

The crooked house

(2021) --

Narrowing valley

(2022) --

To visit the city of the dead

(2022) --

In Mugwump Four

(2023) --

The Red Sun School of Thoughts

(2024)