Terrorism and the Novel

Just came across Dangerous Characters, an article by novelist Benjamin Kunkel on terrorism and the novel. Kunkel aims to characterize the figure of the terrorist in the terrorist novel, both pre- and post-9/11. At present, I've just skimmed the essay, but want to post it for future reference. Students in my English and American Fiction course will be reading DeLillo's Mao II, probably the most influential terrorist novel (if such a genre can be established) from the postmodern era, in a few weeks, and this essay should help us to identify some of the key issues concerning the relationship between terror and fiction.