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Remembering Tim Hetherington
Michael Salu
‘Each image contained a finely weighed contemplation of a given moment, in all its furious intensity.’
You Want Gunfire With That?
Dan Hind
‘The end of Soviet communism was supposed to have brought with it the end of ideological struggle and even, according to a significant few, history itself.’
Undoing the folded lie: Poetry after 9/11
Rachael Allen
‘The real feeling of a day that changed everything forever is boiled down so incessantly, and so often, to cliché.’
Airports: Frontier Nations
Andrés Neuman
‘1.In the waiting area of the Málaga airport for departing flights, a flock of birds nests on the beams. They fly back and forth across the high ceiling.’
Insomnia
A.L. Kennedy
‘After dinner and schoolwork and dog-walking and the rest, even if I’d put the light out and laid myself down for definite rest, little ideas and scraps and nonsenses would tickle in and start to shake me. They would make the nights too bright to resist.’
The Heartland: Ten Years After 9/11
Frank Bill
‘‘You think 9/11 changed that, how crimes are committed?’ ‘9/11 changed how Americans live. Period.’’
Jongwe, the cockerel of liberation
Kevin Bloom
‘There’s nothing of interest at ground level, no great revelations. Just the rooster keeping watch in the sky; jongwe, the cockerel of the liberation movement.’
Feeding the Fire: The Political Context of 9/11
Adam Haslett
‘9/11 was the bullet to the powder keg of an already heated domestic conflict.’
At War With Writing About War
Gabe Hudson
‘Perhaps a more precise and academicish moniker for War Literature would be, Suicide Averted In Favour of Writing.’
Two Minutes Too Long
Urvashi Butalia
‘What did our government mean by asking us to mourn for these deaths in America?’
The Ghost Children of the North
Bina Shah
‘‘I asked him what the four seasons of the year were’, she says, ‘and he replied, ‘sardi, garmi, hangama, hartal’’. (Winter, summer, riots, strikes.)’
