September 11 didn't feel like ancient history by the time Martin Amis published The Last Days of Muhammad Atta in 2006 or Don DeLillo's Falling Man came out in 2007. Yet at least as a subject for fiction the onset of the pandemic in spring 2020 already has that air.
Do we want to go back again to how it began? Yes, say the authors of two new novels that adopt contrasting narrative approaches to that period as experienced in New York. In Day, by Michael Cunningham (author of Pulitzer-winning The Hours)...
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