Death’s Dominion

April 12: “The Civil War’s rate of death, its incidence in comparison with the size of the American population, was six times that of World War II.”

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.”