A MIRACLE, A UNIVERSE Settling Accounts With Torturers <i> by Lawrence Weschler (Pantheon: $22.95; 300 pp.;) </i>

” . . . brilliantly depicts how in the face of extreme repression, there were courageous individuals who pointed the way back to freedom. Weschler demonstrates the importance of truth-telling for that journey and for the healing of whole societies.”