In a series of snapshots after the attack on the World Trade Center—from a day, to a week, up to a year and beyond—Eliot Weinberger offers thoughtful and provocative reflections on his city, the country, and the state of the world. Originally published only outside the United States, these essays are now available together, and for the first time in English.

Taken as a whole, they constitute a remarkable "archive of the moment," way-markers for a story that is still unfolding.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prelude: Un Coup d’Etat Toujours Abolira le Hasard

New York: The Day After

New York: Three Weeks After

New York: Four Weeks After

New York: One Year After

New York: Sixteen Months After

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© 2003 Eliot Weinberger. ISBN: 0-9717575-9-3.
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These essays were written for publication abroad. They appeared in Lettre International in Germany, El Malpensante in Colombia, Tianya in China, D’Autres Espaces on the web in France, Magyar Lettre International in Hungary, Gazeta in Poland, Peterburg na Nevskom and Krasny in Russia, Lettera Internazionale in Italy, Yang in (Flemish) Belgium, Letras Libres in Mexico and Spain, Dialogos & Debates de Escola Paulista de Magistratura in Brazil, Letra Internacional and Lateral in Spain, and Tien Phong and Van Nghe Tre in Vietnam. I am grateful to the many translators and editors involved.

In English, they circulated via e-mail among individuals, also turning up on websites and listservs. This is their first print publication in English.

I am a literary writer, and not a political analyst, an expert, an insider. The six essays should be taken as snapshots of what one person who reads the newspapers was thinking on six given days in recent history. Some of what I wrote has been overtaken by events or new information; in some cases, time has shifted emphases. I have, however, resisted the temptation to change or delete any statements in the original articles, other than a few stylistic alterations and the elimination of the inevitable repetitions that occur when independent articles are gathered together.

About the Author:

Eliot Weinberger is a translator, editor, and essayist on culture and politics. His translations include many writers of Latin America - Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Vincente Huidobro - and more recently of China - Bei Dao. His collections of essays, including Karmic Traces and Outside Stories, cover the rest of the world. In the Wu T'ai Mountains describes one of China's sacred places.

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