“Notes Towards a Definition of the Ideal Reader”: Conference paper,
“How Pinocchio Learned to Read”: Conference paper, originally given in French as “Comment Pinocchio apprit à lire,”
“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
“Time and the Doleful Knight”: Published in Spanish as “El reloj de Don Quijote,”
“Saint Augustine’s Computer”: Lecture,
“Reading White for Black”: Published as “No Minor Art,”
“The Secret Sharer”:
“Honoring Enoch Soames”: Published as “The Writers’ Wish List,”
“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
“In Memoriam”: Alberto Manguel,
“God’s Spies”: Introduction to
“Once Again, Troy”:
“Art and Blasphemy”:
“At the Mad Hatter’s Table”: Conference paper,
“Notes Towards a Definition of the Ideal Library”: Previously unpublished
“The Library of the Wandering Jew”: Published as “The Exile’s Library,”
“The Library as Home”: Published as “A 30,000-Volume Window on the World,”
“The End of Reading”: Lecture, Adam Helms Lecture, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 21 April 2009
Ackerley, J.R.
Adair, Gilbert
Adam (biblical)
Addison, Joseph
Advertising
Ahasuerus (Wandering Jew)
AIDS drugs, in South Africa
Albee, Edward,
Albin Michel
Alexandria, Library of
Alfonsín, Raul
Amazon.com, best-seller lists of
Am-Bass press
Ambrose, Saint
Amnesty International
Amundsen, Roald
Andersen, Hans Christian, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,”
Anderson, Jon Lee
Anderson Imbert, Enrique
Andreyev, Leonid
Apollinaire, Guillaume,
Apollonius of Rhodes
Apuleius;
Aquinas, Saint Thomas;
Archbold, Rick
Arenas, Reinaldo
Argentina: antisemitism in; Che Guevara in; Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires; Communist Party of; Disappeared
Aristophanes
Aristotle,
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,
Atwood, Margaret,
Auden, W. H.
Augustine, Saint; books of;
Augustus, Emperor
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,
Beerbohm, Max
Behn, Aphra,
Beirut, images of
Bellay, Joachim de,
Belloc, Hilaire
Benet, Juan,
Benjamin, Walter
Bernárdez, Aurora
Bernes, Jean-Pierre
Best-seller lists
Bezos, Jeff
Bianciotti, Héctor