Book Review: Charles Strozier’s “Until the Fires Stopped Burning”

Historian and psychoanalyst Charles B. Strozier’s Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses is an interesting book, one that both comes off seeming incomplete and lacking and is eminently readable and recommendable.

As the title suggest, Strozier’s purpose is to tell a story of 9/11 through (mostly) the testimony of survivors and witnesses. He is also interested in separating the different kinds of experience that marked th...