A pretty interesting compilation of opinion occurs in SLATE on the subject of art originating in 9/11 experience.
http://www.slate.com/id/2149194/
Two exceptional novels come to mind. First, Orhan Pamuk's Snow, which illuminates the world of political Islam in much the way Dostoevsky and Conrad illuminated the revolutionary-terrorist politics of their eras. Second, Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children, which captures, in all its comfortable fatuity, the New York City that, in retrospect, seemed poised for disaster.
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