9/11
Twenty-one years after the fact, and I can’t see a cloudless sky without thinking of September 11, 2001.
Heron
Please consider this photograph a brief respite from the day.
Another time and place
The World Trade Center and environs, on a 2008 subway map.
WTC 2008
I‘ve pretty much kept September 11, 2001 at a distance today. But tonight I’ve been thinking about a visit to the World Trade Center and St. Paul’s Chapel that Elaine and I and made with friends in 2008.
A September 11 mural
By Eduardo Kobra.
“The Real Lesson of September 11”
Joe Quinn, a United States Army veteran, writes about “The Real Lesson of September 11.”
WTC
The Manhattan skyline on a Chock full o’Nuts coffee can.
September 11
A still from The Daytrippers, with the World Trade Center at night.
September 11
Art by Thornton Dial.
September 11
Art by Thornton Dial.
WTC, 1980
From a 1980 New York City subway map.
From the eighty-fourth floor
A handwritten note from the eighty-fourth floor of Two World Trade Center
September 11
Art by Thornton Dial.
The Class of 9/11
“Manhattan’s P.S. 150 stands eight blocks from where the World Trade Center stood.”
Philippe Petit on the past and present tenses
On the World Trade Center
E.B. White on New York City
For September 11
WTC, 1985
A postcard of the World Trade Center, found in a bookstore
9/11/01
Rescue 2, FDNY
Words from Walt Whitman
The poet Edwin Denby called him "Brooklyn Whitman, commuter Walt." Whitman's words seem appropriate today: Others will enter the gates of th...
9/11/01
Above, a scan of Art Speigelman's "9/11/01." As Spiegelman explains, this image "can really be seen only in its printed form." The towers of...
September 10, September 11
It's my lunch hour, so I go for a walk among the hum-colored cabs. First, down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening torso...