In Paradise

A guided tour through Nazi concentration camps makes for a haunting end to the life and career of a twentieth-century master.

Stifling a Yawn

April 11: “[B]ecause of the good deeds by which [Tanonius Marcellinus] rescued the population from endless boredom, the entire people judges that this inscription should be recorded.”

Shaman

In Kim Stanley Robinson’s Shaman, one of the greatest science fiction writers of our time takes his furthest trip yet: back to the dawn of man.