Love 'em or hate 'em, there was no discounting the Twin Towers as the modern symbol of New York. One tasteful keepsake of these short-lived Manhattan landmarks is "The World Trade Center ...

Today, the Twin Towers stand only in our memory, an image that calls to mind sorrow and loss. But during the years that they straddled the skyline, the towers meant many things to many people. On ...

Books Entertainment An American dream turns to dust in the rubble of the twin towers Originally published April 10, 2007 at 12:00 am Updated April 10, 2007 at 2:00 am ...

Colin Moynihan on Brian Rose’s new book, “WTC,” a collection of photographs that focusses on how the Twin Towers were viewed before September 11th.

McCann as Oisin In McCann’s new book, the opening scene, high up on the wire between the Twin Towers, turns almost reflexively to an imaginary Dublin childhood in the 1950s.

"The Twin Towers are present for a lot of this book, but their absence is a part of this story as well," Rose texplains.

Both books − part memoir and part meditation − are about the ways 9/11 impacted the authors, and changed the trajectory of their lives. The repercussions, in both cases, were enormous.

Another version of the story is told in the 2004 Caldecott Medal-winning book, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein. Gerstein's book was made into a wonderful animated short ...