''The Second Plane'' (2008) is a collection of twelve pieces of nonfiction and two short stories by the British writer
Martin Amis
Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels ''Money'' (1984) and ''London Fields'' (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir '' ...
on the subject of the
9/11
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial ...
attacks, terrorism,
Muslim radicalisation and the subsequent global
War on Terror.
Essays collected
''The Second Plane'' is Amis's seventh collection of nonfiction, drawing upon pieces written for ''
The Guardian,'' ''
The Observer,'' ''
The Times,'' ''
The New Yorker,'' and ''
The New York Times'' between 2001-2007 and is by far one of the most controversial and divisive publications of his literary career to date.
Contents
* "The Second Plane," ''The Guardian,'' September 18, 2001
* "The Voice of the Lonely Crowd," ''The Guardian,'' June, 2002
* "The Wrong War," ''The Guardian,'' March, 2003
* "In the Palace of the End" ''The New Yorker,'' March, 2004
* "Terror and Boredom: The Dependent Mind," ''The Observer,'' September, 2006
* "The Last Days of
Muhammad Atta," ''The New Yorker,'' April, 2006
* "Iran and the Lord of Time," ''The New York Times'' Syndicate, June, 2006
* "What Will Survive of Us," ''The Times,'' June, 2006
* "Conspiracy Theories, and Takfir," ''The Times,'' September, 2006
* "
Bush in Yes Man Land," ''The Times,'' October, 2006
* "Demographics," ''The Times,'' April, 2007
* "On the Move with
Tony Blair," ''The Guardian,'' June, 2007
* "An Islamist's Journey," ''The Times,'' May, 2007
* "September 11," ''The Times,'' September 11, 2007
Controversy
''The Second Plane'' emerged following an accusation of
racism levelled at Amis by
Marxist
Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
theorist
Terry Eagleton in 2007, following comments made by Amis in a 2006 interview.
[Sutherland, John]
"Eagleton vs. Amis: An Academic Storm"
"The Guardian", October 4, 2007, accessed May 8, 2011
Notes
External links
Amis in ''The Guardian'' with the essay that serves as the collection's title
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Books by Martin Amis
2008 non-fiction books
Jonathan Cape books