‘A Message to the Twenty-First Century’ (acceptance speech at the University of Toronto, 25 November 1994)

• in part, as ‘Beware the One True Answer’, Globe and Mail (Toronto), 26 November 1994, A18 (‘Quote of the Day’, A1: ‘There are men who will kill and maim with a tranquil conscience under the influence of the words and writings of some of those who are certain that they know how perfection can be reached’)
• in full, New York Review of Books, 23 October 2014, 37
• repr. in Ariel Levy (ed.), The Best American Essays 2015 (Boston and New York, 2015: Mariner [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]), 31–4
• repr. in Affirming
• trans. Italian, Thai