SOURCES

1. “The Quest for Superiority” was delivered as the Blashfield Foundation Address on May 21, 2008, at the Ceremonial of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. It was originally published under the title, “The Unobtrusives,” reprinted with permission from Tin House.

2. “. “After the Destruction of the World Trade Center” was originally published as “The Foreign Policy Therapist” in the Nation, December 3, 2001.

3. “Morality” was originally published as the Appendix to Aunt Dan and Lemon, Grove Weidenfield, 1985.

4. “An American Publishes a Magazine” was originally published as the Editor’s Note in Final Edition, Seven Stories Press, 2004.

5. “Patriotism” was originally published in the Nation, July 15-22, 1991.

6. Interview with Noam Chomsky originally published in Final Edition.

7. “Bush Proposes Preemptive War” was originally published as “The Dangerous Restaurant,” in the Nation, October 28, 2002.

8. “The Invasion of Iraq Is Moments Away” was origainally published as “Fragments from a Diary,” in the Nation, March 31, 2003.

9. “Up to Our Necks in War” was originally published as “Before the Election—Fragments from a Diary 2004.” in Final Edition.

10. “Israel Attacks Gaza” was originally published as “Israel in Gaza: Irrationality,” on Nation.com, December 29, 2008.

11. “Myself and How I Got into the Theatre” was originally published in Plays One by Faber & Faber/Faber Contemporary Classics, 1997.

12. “Reading Plays” was originally published in Four Plays by Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997.

13. “Aesthetic Preferences” was originally published in Our Late Night and A Thought in Three Parts: Two Plays by Theater Communications Group, 2008.

14. “Interview with Mark Strand” was originally published as “Mark Strand: The Art of Poetry LXXVII” in the Paris Review, Fall 1998.

15. “Writing about Sex” was originally published as the Afterword to Our Late Night and A Thought in Three Parts: Two Plays.