This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as oppos

The Wound and the Witness offers a historically grounded approach to an urgent contemporary problem: the persistence of torture in Western culture. Drawing upon

After 9/11, the United States became a nation that sanctioned torture. Detainees across the globe were waterboarded, deprived of sleep, beaten by guards, blaste

Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens—and that the torturers are the pol

Examines the ways in which moving images can help us better understand factual political tortureExamines role of images and film in (mis)understanding of tortur