This collection explores torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. It contends that these disciplines advance the discussion and

When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. politicians attributed the incident to a few bad apples in the Am

This collection of essays take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. The book speaks about the practic

Experts in the intelligence community say that torture is ineffective. Yet much of the public appears unconvinced: surveys show that nearly half of Americans th

Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane O’Mara writes in this account of the human brain under stress, another reason torture should