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9/11 stories

Ten years after the attacks on New York and Washington, we look at how 9/11 has shaped imaginations. The Guardian's short fiction project, 9/11 stories, brings together writers from all over the world to examine what has changed and what has not over the course of the last decade.
  • The Trial: inside Guantánamo with 9/11 suspect Ammar al-Baluchi – video

    Alka Pradhan, James Connell and Sterling Thomas are lawyers for Ammar al-Baluchi, one of five men facing the death penalty for plotting the 2001 terror attacks in the US. The Trial provides a window into the buildup to the largest criminal trial in American history

  • A woman checks a mobile device during a lunch break in London

    9/11 stories: iAnna by Will Self

    News of patients with an unusual set of symptoms tempts Dr Zack Busner back to St Mungo's in the last of our series of fiction marking the anniversary of 9/11, an exclusive short story from Will Self

  • Cookbooks

    Guardian Books podcast: Cookery books and 9/11 stories

  • Vermont Dairy Farm Struggles To Keep Afloat

    9/11 stories: Second Skull by Rob Magnuson Smith

  • White picket fence

    9/11 stories: Echo by Laila Lalami

    The ripples from Baghdad flow all the way to Bay City as Laila Lalami reflects on the decade since 9/11 in this exclusive short story

  • American airlines jets in 2001

    9/11 stories: The Second Death of Martin Lango by Helon Habila

    A phone call from an old friend sets Charles thinking of his former life in Nigeria, but the connection between Lagos and Washington DC is difficult to establish in this new story from Helon Habila, the latest in our series of short fiction to mark the anniversary of 9/11

  • A street in Karachi during a power cut

    9/11 stories: Our Dead, Your Dead by Kamila Shamsie

    As tempers fray over StreetSmart magazine's 9/11 anniversary issue, the Karachi night can only get hotter in this new short story

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    Introducing 9/11 stories

  • A cyclist rides through a sand storm at the Burning Man festival

    9/11 stories: Temple of Tears by Geoff Dyer

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