Introduction: speakable/unspeakable: the rhetoric of terrorism
"A deed without a name": Macbeth, the Gunpowder Plot, and terrorism
Terrorism and dynamite: from the French Revolution to Conrad
When terror becomes speakable: Algeria and Ireland
Israel/Palestine: unspeakability in John le Carré, The little drummer girl, Steven Spielberg, Munich; Yasmina Khadra, The attack
"Why do they hate us?": Updike, Hamid, and Delillo
Epilogue: where do we go from here?; Nadeem Aslam, The blind man's garden and Amy Waldman, The submission.