Joseph O’Neill’s ‘Netherland’ — A Masterly Study in Unreliable Narration

A Dutch-born banker in Manhattan becomes unmoored in a post-9/11 ghost story with neo-Gothic undertones

Highway sign on 9/11 / Credit: George W. Bush Presidential Library via Wikimedia Commons

This story first appeared on a blog soon after the publication of Netherland, the finest novel I’d read about the aftermath of 9/11. I’m reposting it unedited — except…