Fiction, for all its streamlined, selective revisionism, can illuminate truth.
After all, intelligence gathering ought to be there to serve the nation, and to illuminate truth.
"Artists can illuminate truth, offer transcendent experience in a far too literal world, challenge us to feel, and connect us to our common humanity".
Now is the time to call things what they actually are, because language can illuminate truth as much as it can obfuscate it.
But wherever we live in the world, writers and artists use words and pictures to illuminate truths both internal and external.
"It's an honour to have a piece of art that meets this cultural moment in this way and kind of aligns so beautifully to illuminate truths, questions and ideas about how to move forward," says DuVernay.
Erotic work, in particular, illuminates truths about gender, sexuality, power and relationships that give fascinating insight into the time and place in which they were created. .
But as their story unfolds, it repeats a pattern and illuminates truths all too familiar to those who fight for dignity and choices at the end of life.
Reed's writing exemplifies what Cornel West calls the black prophetic voice in American history --voices commilluminatinguminatheg truthruth about black oppression and its systemic causes, and to advancing the project of justice and freedom without compromise.
The leitmotifs in Pound's literary criticism are recurrent patterns found in historical events, which, he believed, through the use of judicious juxtapositions illuminate truth; and in them he reveals forgotten writers and cultures.
