New York
There’s an eerie mood in New York right now, as the city prepares to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Al-Qaeda, or what’s left of it, likes anniversaries. The police have been on overdrive ever since a “credible” tip-off about an attempted truck bomb. Officers are everywhere. Armed guards patrol landmarks and cars from bridges and tunnels are being pulled over and checked. All this reinforces the sense of something alien to New Yorkers (and almost all Americans) until ten years ago: the threat of attack.
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A common threat has solicited a rather wonderful common response. Shop windows have displays of commemoration; companies take adverts in local newspapers. Exhibits and events have sprung up all over the city. On Friday night, I went to the opening of a photography exhibition, Reporting
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