Languages of truth: essays 2003-2020

Part One

Wonder Tales

Proteus

Heraclitus

Another Writer's Beginnings

Part Two

Philip Roth

Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five

Samuel Beckett's Novels

Cervantes and Shakespeare

Gabo and I

Harold Pinter

Paris Review, The Art of Fiction, Vol. IV

Autobiography and the Novel

Adaptation

Notes on Sloth

Hans Christian Andersen

David Remnick's King of the World

Very Well Then, I Contradict Myself

Part Three

Truth

Courage

Texts for PEN

Christopher Hitchens

The Liberty Instinct

Osama Bin Laden

Ai Weiwei and Others

The Half-Woman God

Nova Southeastern University Commencement Address 2006

Emory University Commencement Address 2015

Part Four

The Composite Artist: the Emperor Akbar and the Making of the Hamzanama

Amrita Sher-Gil: Letters

Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003)

Being Francesco Clemente: Self-Portraits at the Gagosian Gallery, London, 2005

Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar at the Whitney Museum, New York, 2007

Kara Walker at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009

Sebastião Salgado

The Unbeliever's Christmas

Carrie Fisher

Pandemic: A Personal Engagement with the Coronavirus

The Proust Questionnaire: Vanity Fair.