The implied author
My father
Notes on April 19, 1994
Spring afternoons
Dead tired in the evening
Out of bed, in the silence of night
When the furniture is talking, how can you sleep?
Giving up smoking
Seagull in the rain
A seagull lies dying on the shore
To be happy
My wristwatches
I'm not going to school
Rüya and us
When Rüya is sad
The view
What I know about dogs
A note on poetic justice
After the storm
In this place long ago
The house of the man who has no one
Barbers
Fires and ruins
Frankfurter
Bosphorus ferries
The islands
Earthquake
Earthquake angst in Istanbul
How I got rid of some of my books
On reading: words or images
The pleasures of reading
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
The brothers Karamazov
Cruelty, beauty, and time : on Nabokov's Ada and Lolita
Albert Camus
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
PEN Arthur Miller speech
No entry
Where is Europe?
A guide to being Mediterranean
My first passport and other European journeys
André Gide
Family meals and politics on religious holidays
The anger of the damned
Traffic and religion
In Kars and Frankfurt
On trial
Who do you write for?
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
On My name is Red
From the snow in Kars notebooks
Şirin's surprise
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?
Selimiye Mosque
Bellini and the East
Black pen
Meaning
My first encounters with Americans
Views from the capital of the world
The Paris Review interview
To look out the window
My father's suitcase.