A Reader on Reading

“Notes Towards a Definition of the Ideal Reader”: Conference paper, The Ideal Reader, Maison des écrivains étrangers et des traducteurs de Saint Nazaire (MEET), Saint Nazaire, France, February 2003

“How Pinocchio Learned to Read”: Conference paper, originally given in French as “Comment Pinocchio apprit à lire,” Et pourquoi pas un éloge de la lecture? Actes des 13es Journées d’Arole, Bibliothèques de la Ville La Chaux-de-Fond, Lausanne, Institut suisse Jeunesse et Médias, 14–15 November 2003

“Candide in Sanssouci”: Conference paper, originally given in German as “Den alles Fleisch es ist wie das Grass,” Einstein Forum, Potsdam, 26 June 2003

“The Gates of Paradise”: Introduction to The Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction, ed. Alberto Manguel (Toronto: Walter & Ross,

“Time and the Doleful Knight”: Published in Spanish as “El reloj de Don Quijote,” Matador (Madrid), vol. 50 (2008)

“Saint Augustine’s Computer”: Lecture, Times Literary Supplement Lecture, Hay-on-Wye, 29 May 1997; first published Times Literary Supplement, 4 July 1997

“Reading White for Black”: Published as “No Minor Art,” Index on Censorship (London) (March-April 1996)

“The Secret Sharer”: Saturday Night (Toronto), vol. 102 (July 1987)

“Honoring Enoch Soames”: Published as “The Writers’ Wish List,” New York Times, 8 September 1998

“Jonah and the Whale”: Lecture, Banff Centre for the Arts Lecture, Banff, Alberta, 30 August 1996

“The Legend of the Dodos”: Published in French in Le Monde, 23 March 2006

“In Memoriam”: Alberto Manguel, Into the Looking-Glass Wood (Toronto: Knopf, 1998)

“God’s Spies”: Introduction to God’s Spies: Stories in Defiance of Oppression, ed. Albert Manguel (Toronto: Macfarlane Walter and Ross, 1999)

“Once Again, Troy”: Lebanon, Lebanon, ed. Anna Wilson (London: Saqi, 2006)

“Art and Blasphemy”: Geist (Vancouver), vol. 60 (Spring 2006)

“At the Mad Hatter’s Table”: Conference paper, Folly, The British Comparative Literature Association, Eleventh International Conference, 2–5 July 2007, Goldsmiths College, University of London

“Notes Towards a Definition of the Ideal Library”: Previously unpublished

“The Library of the Wandering Jew”: Published as “The Exile’s Library,” The Guardian, 21 February 2009

“The Library as Home”: Published as “A 30,000-Volume Window on the World,” New York Times, 15 May 2008

“The End of Reading”: Lecture, Adam Helms Lecture, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 21 April 2009

Index

Ackerley, J.R.

Adair, Gilbert

Adam (biblical)

Addison, Joseph

Advertising

Ahasuerus (Wandering Jew)

AIDS drugs, in South Africa

Albee, Edward, Who ‘s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Albin Michel

Alexandria, Library of

Alfonsín, Raul

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll); first reading of; insane world of; protean identities in; rereading

Amazon.com, best-seller lists of

Am-Bass press

Ambrose, Saint

Amnesty International

Amundsen, Roald

Anales de Buenos Aires

Andersen, Hans Christian, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,”

Anderson, Jon Lee

Anderson Imbert, Enrique

Andreyev, Leonid

Apollinaire, Guillaume, Calligrammes

Apollonius of Rhodes

Apuleius; The Golden Ass

Aquinas, Saint Thomas; Summa Theo-logica

Archbold, Rick

Arenas, Reinaldo

Argentina: antisemitism in; Che Guevara in; Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires; Communist Party of; Disappeared (Desaparecidos) of; government coups in; Jewish settlement in; memory groups in; military amnesty for human rights abuses; under military dictatorship; “misery villages” of; and Perón’s pro-Nazi activities

Aristophanes

Aristotle, Parva naturalia

Armenian massacre

Arnold, Matthew; “Dover Beach,”

Art: of advertising; fool’s; artists in Ninevite society; monetary value of

Assis, Machado de

Astete de Millán, Elsa

Attar, Farid ud-din, Assembly of the Birds

Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale

Auden, W. H.

Augustine, Saint; books of; Confessions; on reading; reading ritual of; study of

Augustus, Emperor Author and Editor: A Working Guide

Aztec treasure, value of

Babel, Isaac

Bajarlia, Juan Jacobo

Baker, Carlos

Banchs, Enrique

Barbie, Klaus

Barrientos, René

Barthes, Roland

Basri, Hasan Al-

Bataille, Georges

Batista, Fulgencio

Baudelaire, Charles

Beckett, Samuel

Beckford, William, Vathek

Beerbohm, Max

Behn, Aphra, The Rover

Beirut, images of

Bellay, Joachim de, Défense et exemple de la langue française

Belloc, Hilaire

Benet, Juan, Una meditación

Benjamin, Walter

Bernárdez, Aurora

Bernes, Jean-Pierre

Best-seller lists

Bezos, Jeff

Bianciotti, Héctor