A reader in the looking-glass wood
Room for the shadow
On being Jewish
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest
The further off from England
Homage to Proteus
Borges in love
Borges and the longed-for Jew
Faking it
The death of Che Guevara
The blind bookkeeper
The perseverance of truth
AIDS and the poet
The full stop
In praise of words
A brief history of the page
The voice that says "I"
Final answers
What song the sirens sang
Notes towards a definition of the ideal reader
How Pinocchio learned to read
Candide in Sanssouci
The gates of paradise
Time and the doleful knight
Saint Augustine's computer
Reading white for black
The secret sharer
Honoring Enoch Soames
Jonah and the whale
The legend of the dodos
In memoriam
God's spies
Once again, Troy
Art and blasphemy
At the mad hatter's table
Notes towards a definition of the ideal library
The library of the wandering Jew
The library as home
The end of reading.
A reader on reading by Alberto Manguel. ISBN 9780300159820. Published by Yale University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.