The Second Plane

First edition (publ. Jonathan Cape)

The Second Plane (2008) is a collection of twelve pieces of nonfiction and two short stories by the British writer Martin Amis on the subject of the 9/11 attacks, terrorism, Muslim radicalisation and the subsequent global War on Terror.

Essays collected

The Second Plane is Amis's seventh collection of nonfiction, drawing upon pieces written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, The New Yorker, and The New York Times between 2001-2007 and is by far one of the most controversial and divisive publications of his literary career to date.

Contents

• "The Second Plane," The Guardian, September 18, 2001
• "The Voice of the Lonely Crowd," The Guardian, June, 2002
• "The Wrong War," The Guardian, March, 2003
• "In the Palace of the End" The New Yorker, March, 2004
• "Terror and Boredom: The Dependent Mind," The Observer, September, 2006
• "The Last Days of Muhammad Atta," The New Yorker, April, 2006
• "Iran and the Lord of Time," The New York Times Syndicate, June, 2006
• "What Will Survive of Us," The Times, June, 2006
• "Conspiracy Theories, and Takfir," The Times, September, 2006
• "Bush in Yes Man Land," The Times, October, 2006
• "Demographics," The Times, April, 2007
• "On the Move with Tony Blair," The Guardian, June, 2007
• "An Islamist's Journey," The Times, May, 2007
• "September 11," The Times, September 11, 2007

Controversy

The Second Plane emerged following an accusation of racism levelled at Amis by Marxist theorist Terry Eagleton in 2007 following comments made by Amis in a 2006 interview.^[1]

Notes

External links

• Amis in The Guardian with the essay that serves as the collection's title

Martin Amis
Novels	The Rachel Papers (1973) Dead Babies (1975) Success (1978) Other People: A Mystery Story (1981) Money: A Suicide Note (1984) London Fields (1989) Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence (1991) The Information (1995) Night Train (1997) Yellow Dog (2003) House of Meetings (2006) The Pregnant Widow (2010) Lionel Asbo: State of England (2012) The Zone of Interest (2014)
Short story collections	Einstein's Monsters (1987) Two Stories (1994) Heavy Water and Other Stories (1998)
Screenplays	Saturn 3 (1980)
Non-fiction	The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America (1986) Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions (1993) Experience (2000) The War Against Cliché (2001) Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2002) The Second Plane (2008)
Miscellaneous	Kingsley Amis Hilary Bardwell Lemmons