The other is "There Are No Children Here," by Alex Kotlowitz, an intimately illuminating look at one such family in Chicago.

It nonetheless provides the general reader with an illuminating look at Mozart's world and the circumstances under which he composed his final works.

A nicely honed selection of drawings helps turn this small exhibition of Bryan Hunt's recent sculpture into an illuminating look at a range of his ideas.

"The Boys of St. Vincent" offers a sensitive, illuminating look at a tough subject.

It offers an illuminating look at a system gone completely haywire.

Mr. Jennings takes a slyly humorous but illuminating look at how Frito-Lay is seeking to market potato chips to the rest of the world.

Baltimore provides an illuminating look at how a team can impressively change the complexion of its games in the fourth quarter.

This was a subtler and more illuminating look at similar trends.

Largely a forgotten film today, Air Hawks does provide an illuminating, if brief look at an iconic figure of the Golden Age of Aviation.

Whether or not Mr. Karadzic is finally tracked down and tried, his career provides a darkly illuminating look at the history of the Balkans.