Inspired by the Abu Ghraib photos, David Griffith journeys through the vast catalogue of violent and sexual images that have accumulated in the public's collective unconscious, meditating on books, music and films. Griffith in particular suggests that Flannery O'Connor offers the most potent insights into the failures at the prison. Griffith's elegant prose and startling images place him squarely in the tradition of Joan Didion's Salvador and Hunter S. Thompson's The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved.''