American fiction writers are still struggling to put words to the horror of September 11th—and only a few have succeeded

Bronwen Maddox analyses what effect Osama bin Laden's death will have on Obama's presidency, US relations with Pakistan and the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan

Everyone has a theory about the real causes of 9/11. They range from the nutty (it was the US government) to the plausible but flawed (a response to foreign occupation) to the credible (collateral damage from a clash within Islam)