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McLuhan published more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles. Here are all the book titles and a selection of the articles. Most recent editions are shown first and original dates of publication are indicated in square brackets.

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The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of his Time, W. Terrence Gordon, ed. Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2006. [1942, unpublished]

The Mechanical Bride. Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2002 [1951].

Counterblast. Berkeley & Hamburg: Gingko Press, 2011 [1954].

The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011 [1962].

Understanding Media. W. Terrence Gordon, ed. Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2003 [1964].

Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations. New York, 1967. (Reprint of Explorations, no. 8)

Culture Is our Business. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.

The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan. Eugene McNamara, ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.

Essential McLuhan. Eric McLuhan & Frank Zingrone, eds. Toronto: Anansi, 1995.

McLuhan Unbound. W. Terrence Gordon, ed. Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005.

Explorations in Communication: An Anthology. Edmund Carpenter & Marshall Mcluhan, eds. Boston: Beacon Press, 1960.

With Jerome Agel. War and Peace in the Global Village. Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2001 [1968].

With David Carson. The Book of Probes. Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2003.

With Quentin Fiore. The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects. Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2001 [1967].

With Eric McLuhan. Laws of Media: The New Science. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.

With Eric McLuhan & Kathryn Hutchon. City as Classroom: Understanding Language and Media. Toronto: Anansi, 1977.

With Barrington Nevitt. Take Today. Toronto: Longman, 1972.

With Harley Parker. Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

With Bruce Powers. The Global Village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

With R. J. Schoeck. Voices of Literature: Sounds, Masks, Roles. New York, 1971.

With Wilfred Watson. From Cliché to Archetype. Berkeley & Hamburg: Gingko Press, 2011 [1970].

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“The ABCED-minded.” Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication 5 (June 1955), 12-18.

“American Advertising.” In W. Terrence Gordon, ed., McLuhan Unbound (Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005), #9. Repr. from Horizon, 93-94 (October 1947), 132-141.

“A Candid Conversation with the High Priest of Popcult and Metaphysician of Media. Playboy, March 1969, 53-74, 158.

“Culture without Literacy.” Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communications 1 (December 1953), 117-27.

“A Dialogue: Q. & A. In Gerald E. Stearn, ed., McLuhan Hot and Cool: A Primer for the Understanding of and a Critical Symposium with a Rebuttal by McLuhan. New York: New American Library, 1967, pp.260-292.

“Effects of the Improvements of Communication Media.” The Journal of Economic History 20 (December 1960), 566-575.

“Footprints in the Sands of Crime.” Sewanee Review 54 (1946), 617-634.

“G. K. Chesterton: A Practical Mystic.” In W. Terrence Gordon, ed., McLuhan Unbound (Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005), #11. Repr. from The Dalhousie Review, January 1936, 455-464.

“The Humanities in the Electronic Age.” In W. Terrence Gordon, ed., McLuhan Unbound (Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005), #7. Repr. from The Humanities Association Bulletin (1961), 3-11.

“Inside Blake and Hollywood.” In W. Terrence Gordon, ed., McLuhan Unbound (Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005), #10. Repr. from Sewanee Review 55, October 1947, 710-715.

“James Joyce: Trivial and Quadrivial.” In Eugene McNamara, ed., The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969), pp23-47.

“Laws of the Media.” In W. Terrence Gordon, ed., McLuhan Unbound (Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005), #19. Repr. from et cetera/ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 34, No.2, June 1977, 173-179.

“McLuhan’s Laws of the Media.” Technology and Culture, January 1975, 74-78.

“The Medium is the Message.” Forum (University of Houston), Summer 1960, 19-24.

“Myth and Mass Media.” In W. Terrence Gordon, ed., McLuhan Unbound (Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005), #18. Repr. from DAEDALUS: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 88, No. 2 (1959), 339-348.

“New Media as Political Forms.” In W. Terrence Gordon, ed., McLuhan Unbound (Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005), #14. Repr. from Explorations 3, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, August 1954, 120-126.

“Notes on the Media as Art Forms.” In W. Terrence Gordon, ed., McLuhan Unbound (Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005), #15. Repr. from Explorations 2, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1954.

“Pound, Eliot, and the Rhetoric of The Waste Land.” New Literary History 10, 3 (1979), 557-580.

“Pound’s Critical Prose.” In Eugene McNamara, ed., The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969), pp75-81.

“Printing and Social Change.” In W. Terrence Gordon, ed., McLuhan Unbound (Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005), #1. Repr. from Printing Progress (1959), page89-112.

“Understanding McLuhan – and fie on any who don’t.” The Globe and Mail, 10 September 1973, p.7.

“Wyndham Lewis: His Theory of Art and Communication.” In Eugene McNamara, ed., The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969), pp83-94.

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Kroker, Arthur. Marilouise Kroker, and David Cook. Panic Encyclopedia: the Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene. Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1989.

MONDO 2000, #11, 1993, p66.

Gerald E. Stearn, ed., McLuhan Hot and Cool: A Primer for the Understanding of and a Critical Symposium with a Rebuttal by McLuhan. New York: New American Library, 1967.

Wright, F. A., ed. Lemprière’s Classical Dictionary of Proper Names mentioned in Ancient Authors. London: Routledge, 1958.

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Gordon, W. Terrence. Marshall McLuhan. Escape into Understanding. A Biography. New York: Harper Collins, 1997.

Gossage, Howard Luck. “You Can See Why the Mighty Would Be Curious,” in Gerald Emanuel Stearn, ed., McLuhan Hot and Cool (New York: New American Library, 1967), 20-30.

Kroker, Arthur. Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis/McLuhan/Grant. Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1984.

Kroker, Arthur, and Michael A. Weinstein. Data Trash: the Theory of the Virtual Class. Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1994.

Levinson, Paul. Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium. London: Routledge, 1999.

Marchessault, Janine. Marshall McLuhan: Cosmic Sage. Sage Publications, 2005.

Molinaro, Matie, Corinne McLuhan, and William Toye, eds. Letters of Marshall McLuhan. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Strate, Lance, and Edward Wachtel. The Legacy of Marshall McLuhan. Hampton Press, 2003.

Tapscott, Don. Grown Up Digital. New York; McGraw-Hill, 2009.

Willmott, Glen. McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.

Wolfe, Tom. “Suppose he is what he sounds like...” in Gerald Emanuel Stearn, ed., McLuhan Hot and Cool (New York: New American Library, 1967), 31-48.