Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, "rogue states," jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom. We labor beneath myths that neither address nor describe the present situation, monstrous deceptions produced by a sound bite society. There is no reckoning of actuality, no understanding of the individual lives that inaugurated this echo chamber.In the summer of 1999, Mohamed Atta defended a master's thesis that critiqued the introduction of Western-style skyscrapers in the Middle East and called for the return of the "Islamic-Oriental city." Using this as a departure point, Jarett Kobek's novel ATTA offers a fictionalized psychedelic biography of Mohamed Atta that circles around a simple question: what if 9/11 was as much a matter of architectural criticism as religious terrorism? Following the development of a socially awkward boy into one of history's great villains, Kobek demonstrates the need for a new understanding of global terrorism. Joined in this volume by a second work, "The Whitman of Tikrit"--a radical reimagining of Saddam Hussein's last day before capture--ATTA is a brutal, relentless, and ultimately fearless corrective to ten years of propaganda and pandering.
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The Gods of Sagittarius
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Un grito en el cielo/ Cry to Heaven
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HHhH
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Eagle and Empire
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Zainab
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With Lee in Virginia: A Tale of the Civil War
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Forest of the Hanged
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We Buried the Past
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The Devil’s Queen: A Novel of Catherine De Medici
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Where Dead Men Meet
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Another Brooklyn
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The Berlin Project
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Murder in Morningside Heights
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Blood Oath: Library Edition
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Pagan
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A Lover’s Country
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The Various Flavors of Coffee
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