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Recent Latin American history is littered with dictatorships, torturous regimes and the deaths of those journalists who try to expose the truth. Perhaps the most famous case is Rodolfo Walsh, the Argentine writer who, using the jargon of the subject, was “disappeared” the day after he wrote an open letter criticizing the Argentine government...
Flaquer’s is a similar case in many ways, but has many elements that make it good fodder for a uniquely compelling narrative. The subject is a difficult one considering that Flaquer was a woman plying her trade in a traditionally male-dominated society and profession...
...titles like “Abraham,” or “The Transfiguration” or “In the Devil’s Territory;” Sufjan never eats the apple of triteness, excess, or pedantry. He always dignifies his audience and his subject matter by directing his adoration into an occasionally unearthly music that nonetheless never leaves human ground, never falling into the preachy...
...lyric poetry to that of the classic poets: “Every once in a while you get a poet like a Horace, or a Shakespeare or a Dylan who’s able to play around with their persona and actually make their persona the subject of the poetry itself...
...reader has a general idea of what the writer might say, but can’t predict much at all. Such uncertainty is characteristic of relationships in general, but what distinguishes the writer/reader interchange from most is that journalism is public, so the stakes are high. And when the subject involves sensitive material about people or communities, they are even higher...