From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
Dead tired in the evening
Out of bed, in the silence of night
When the furniture is talking, how can you sleep?
A seagull lies dying on the shore
The house of the man who has no one
Earthquake angst in Istanbul
How I got rid of some of my books
On reading: words or images
Nine notes on book covers
To read or not to read : the thousand and one nights
Foreword to Tristram Shandy: everyone should have an uncle like this
Victor Hugo's passion for greatness
Dostoyevsky's Notes from underground : the joys of degradation
Dostoyevsky's fearsome demons
Cruelty, beauty, and time : on Nabokov's Ada and Lolita
Reading Thomas Bernhard at a time of unhappiness
The world of Thomas Bernhard's novels
Mario Vargas Llosa and third world literature
Salman Rushdie : The satanic verses and the freedom of the writer
A guide to being Mediterranean
My first passport and other European journeys
Family meals and politics on religious holidays
The white castle afterword
The black book : ten years on
A selection from interviews on The new life
A selection from interviews on My name is Red
From the snow in Kars notebooks
In the forest and as old as the world
Murders by unknown assailants and detective novels
Entr'acte; or, Ah, Cleopatra!
Why didn't I become an architect?
My first encounters with Americans
Views from the capital of the world
The Paris Review interview