Like "The Temperamentals," Jon Marans's play about the founding of a gay-activist group in the 1950s, and Michael Chabon's 2000 novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," the play illuminates a chapter of gay history in the decades before Stonewall.
"Black Chronicles II is part of a wider ongoing project called The Missing Chapter," says Mussai, "which uses the history of photography to illuminate the missing chapters in British history and culture, especially black history and culture.
(Suffice to say, this chapter is illuminating on the subject of why Dingell and Waxman can't stand each other, and why Waxman felt the need to effectively pull a coup on the committee last year).
As such, they predicted, the find promised "to illuminate the earliest chapter in human evolutionary history".
It's difficult to think of any new artists who celebrate and illuminate this same chapter of life so perfectly, warts and all.
If plans proceed for an excavation of the site, archival and field research by the explorers suggests, the remains of the Sussex could yield the richest treasure wreck of modern times and illuminate a lost chapter in world history.
Julie Flavell's "When London Was Capital of America" illuminates this fascinating chapter of London's — and North America's — past, showing how the metropolis functioned as a magnet for colonists from across the Atlantic (including the West Indies) who sought accomplishment, opportunity and commerce.
The dual narration might have been effective if each chapter illuminated the next and vice versa, but instead the jumps in time and point of view force the reader to flip back and forth trying to gauge the advancement of Rozzie's blindness.
His Notre Dame chapter, for example, quickly goes from illuminating to mind-numbing, for he seems never to have met a Gothic architectural term he didn't like.
The chapter on the nature of possession is illuminating.
