A few days after 9/11, Ian McEwan wrote in The Guardian about the aftermath of the tragedy, the shock it had caused in the people he knew. Despite the world-spanning nature of the events, he noted that “the reckoning, of course, was with the personal.” In describing how people channeled their traumatized watching into fantasies …
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Published on January 10, 2021 05:00