“Across these years, hundreds of thousands of young men and women signed on in good faith and served in the lower and middle ranks. They did not make policy. They lived within it.”
9/11
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Uncategorized
The Beer Drinker’s Guide to Getting Through 9/11
Joshua Bernstein went to his roof that day to drink. He stayed there for a week.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Ruback
A newspaper journalist’s attempt to correct the record.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Ruback
A newspaper journalist’s attempt to correct the record.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Falling Man
Richard Drew’s photo of the man falling from the Twin Towers: in the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Grief, Loss and the 9/11 Museum
The fact that everyone else here has VIP status grimly similar to mine is the lone saving grace; the prospect of experiencing this stroll down waking nightmare lane with tuned-out schoolkids or spectacle-seekers would be too much. There are FDNY T-shirts and search-and-rescue sweatshirts and no one quite makes eye contact with anyone else, and […]