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Lucas Thompson

Lucas Thompson teaches at the University of Sydney, where he completed a doctoral dissertation on David Foster Wallace and World Literature in 2014. His writing has either appeared or is forthcoming in academic journals such as Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Journal of American Studies, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, and Philament.

Book Review: Falling After 9/11: Crisis in American Art and Literature by Aimee Pozorski

Surely one of the most memorable and enduring artistic responses to the 9/11 terrorist attacks is Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman’s New Yorker cover, “9/11/2001.” The image initially appears as an utterly dark void, but a closer look reveals the ghostly afterimage of the Twin Towers, rendered in an even deeper shade of black. Published in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, Mouly and Spiegelman’s artwork evokes the monochrome despair of ­a grieving nation­, and seemed to usher in a dark night of the American soul.