Books

• Ways of Telling: Work of John Berger (1987) (see John Berger) ISBN 0-7453-0097-9
• The Colour of Memory (1989) ISBN 0-349-10919-2
• A Book About Jazz (1991) ISBN 0-86547-508-3
• The Search (1993) ISBN 0-349-11624-5
• The Missing of the Somme (1994) ISBN 1-84212-450-1
• Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H.Lawrence (1997) ISBN 0-86547-540-7
• Paris Trance (1998) ISBN 0-86547-600-4
• Anglo-English Attitudes: Essays, Reviews, Misadventures, 1984-98 (1999) ISBN 0-349-11195-2
• Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It (2003) ISBN 1-4000-3167-2
• The Ongoing Moment (2005) ISBN 0-375-42215-3
• Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi Pantheon Books (2009) ISBN 0-307-37737-7

Other works

• What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney (editor, with Margaret Sartor) (2000) ISBN 0-393-04824-1
• The Selected Essays of John Berger (editor) (2001) ISBN 0-7475-5419-6
• Granta 79: Celebrity (contributor: Hotel Oblivion)
• Granta 80: The Group (contributor: On the Roof)
• Granta 91: Wish You Were Here (Contributor: White Sands)
• Give Our Regards To The Atomsmashers! (Contributor: Comics In A Man's Life)
• "In Borges, a Surfeit of Riches", a review of Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges, in the San Francisco Chronicle
• "Space Is the Place", in The Nation.
• "Albert Camus", from Opencity#9 ISBN 1-890447-20-X
• "The road less familiar", a memoir about being a "scholarly gatecrasher," in The Guardian