Rose Tremain America's current agitation about its moral standing in the world is powerfully captured in two extraordinary books: Philip Roth's Nemesis and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom.
Here's a brief exchange I had with O'Brien (with a few bits of e-mail shorthand cleaned up): You powerfully captured the issue of "disaster memory" (or amnesia!), which transcends nuclear risk.
Likening him to a "sightless photographer... blind to the human reality that his lens had so powerfully captured", Manguel says "it seems as if the politician has never read the writer".
In a single, excruciating encounter with an automated voice machine, during a call to her health maintenance organization, Ms. Flanagan powerfully captured her character's enfeebled battle and the show's relentless spirit of futility.
Vera's prose can be elliptical – the horrors that befall the couple are described with such lyrical beauty that they are not always fully felt by the reader – but no other writer has so powerfully captured the many faces of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest, and loveliest, city.
For those that didn't live through it, the series really drives home why this case so powerfully captured national attention.
Sure, before John Hughes's The Breakfast Club there had been other teen flicks, but never before had that strange combination of humiliation, melodrama, and hope that is the adolescent experience been so powerfully captured on celluloid.
This phenomenon has been powerfully captured by what the Global Forum for Health Research popularised as the '10/90 gap': the fact that of the over $70 billion spent worldwide on health research each year, only about 10% is invested in research into 90% of the Global Burden of Disease GBDD).
