From the Book - First American edition.
The photographs in the dark museum house
The destruction of the Pashas' mansions: a sad tour of the streets
Melling's Bosphorus landscapes
My mother, my father, and various disappearances
Four lonely melancholic writers
The joy and monotony of school
Ahmet Rasim and other city columnists
Don't walk down the street with your mouth open
The pleasures of painting
Reşat Ekrem Koçu's collection of facts and curiosities: the Istanbul Encyclopedia
Conquest or decline? The Turkification of Constantinople
On the ships that passed through the Bosphorus, famous fires, moving house, and other disasters
Nerval in Istanbul: Beyoğlu walks
Gautier's melancholic strolls through the city
The melancholy of the ruins: Tanpınar and Yahya Kemal in the city's poor neighborhoods
The picturesque and the outlying neighborhoods
Painting and family happiness
The smoke rising from ships on the Bosphorus
Flaubert in Istanbul: east, west and syphilis
Fights with my older brother
A foreigner in a foreign school
To be unhappy is to hate oneself and one's city
The ship on the Golden Horn
A conversation with my mother: patience, caution, and art.
