The Covenant of Water: Abraham Verghese’s Sweeping New Fable of Family and Medicine
“The Covenant of Water” follows three generations of a close-knit and haunted family in southwestern India.
May 2023
“The Covenant of Water” follows three generations of a close-knit and haunted family in southwestern India.
Mar 2022
“I thought I couldn’t remain in the box that was my body anymore — and yet I had to.”
Apr 2021
Immune to the beauty of sign language, Bell never saw deafness as anything more than a deficit.
Oct 2019
He epitomizes a conundrum, viewing himself as part of multiple societies to which he has incomplete claims.
Aug 2018
“Obedience to Authority” relates how easily adults abdicate responsibility, and illuminates the horror that ensues when we placidly do as we are told.
Mar 2018
Ian Buruma’s memoir, “A Tokyo Romance,” recaptures his youthful experiences in the avant-garde film and theater world of the postwar city.
Nov 2017
How conflating ‘ideal’ and ‘average’ spawned flawed concepts of identity.
Oct 2017
To what extent is information about an unpreventable genetic disease that has not yet caused any symptoms a gift and to what extent is it a burden?
Jan 2017
Merkin is capable of being at once melodramatic and finely nuanced; she has so many good phrases about depression that it’s hard to choose among them.
Nov 2016
Writers choose their best reads of 2016.