Welcome to the City and Other Stories

• "The City Was in Total Darkness" (The New Yorker, August 30, 1941)
• "Main Currents in American Thought" (The New Yorker, August 5, 1939)
• "God on Friday Night"
• "The Eighty-Yard Run" (Esquire, January 1941)
• "Welcome to the City" (The New Yorker, January 17, 1942)
• "Free Conscience, Void of Offense" (The New Yorker, July 27, 1940)
• "Material Witness" (The New Yorker, February 1, 1941)
• "The House of Pain" (Esquire, November 1940)
• "Triumph of Justice" (Esquire, December 1940)
• "Night, Birth and Opinion"
• "Search Through the Streets of the City" (The New Yorker, August 2, 1941)
• "Select Clientele" (The New Yorker, August 17, 1940)
• "The Indian in Depth of Night" (Story)
• "It Happened in Rochester" (Esquire, December 1939)
• "The Dry Rock" (The New Yorker, May 31, 1941)
• "Prize for Promise"
• "Lemkau, Pogran and Blaufox" (The New Yorker, December 30, 1939)
• "Dinner in a Good Restaurant"
• "The Lament of Madame Reshevsky"
• "Pattern of Love"

Biographer Michael Shnayerson reports that the collection was "overwhelmingly" acclaimed by critics when it first appeared confirming Shaw's reputation as an outstanding American writer.^[2]

New York Herald Tribune reviewer H. N. Doughty praised the "warmth of feeling, the heart, the humanity" that characterized the stories in the volume.^[3]

Though acknowledging Shaw's "rich understanding and superb technique," Time magazine cautioned that he "lays it on too thick or too pat…Tricks of overemphasis, which get by on stage, look as uneasy in print as theatrical makeup does in a living room."^[4]