The General and the Specific

Nick Flynn's The Ticking is the Bomb  and "Exposure" by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris approach the torture at Abu Ghraib in two distinct ways as described in Bill Nichols' Introduction to Documentary. Flynn's text operates mostly as a Social Issue Documentary. He is drawing parallels between the events at Abu Ghraib and his personal life by …

Starting Out with a Bang (Or Not)

Nick Flynn's memoir, The Ticking is the Bomb carefully examines the role of photography in ethical memorialization through both his personal life and the hidden-and-revealed instance of the Abu Ghraib photographs. As such, light is an important motif in the book. This is why it is very interesting that the beginning of the book is full …