Tom Lampert lets Nazi-era "normalcy" damn itself.

Kapuscinski's portrait of the rise and fall of Haile Selasie is a masterpiece of first-person journalism.

Michel Faber hunts down Dan Brown but the result comes out flat.

If God made the universe, asks Michael Shermer, who made God?

Nam Le's stories scan the world in search of alienation's common thread.

For James Carroll, Roman Catholicism needs more self-criticism in approaching Jews.

Daniel Alarcón's stunning stories are shaped by his vision of a real and imagined Peru.

Burke's in full ghoul-throttle in the paramedic nightmare.

James Salter's 1975 rumination of marriage vows still bonds with today's headlines.

Another modestly successful story about middle-aged love with a younger woman — wistful, but to what end?