Since opening up an independent bookstore on Long Island, I’ve often been asked by my former colleagues in Congress for book recommendations. At the start of every new year, I survey members for their ...
Books and reading can change your life, said Abraham Verghese, eminent physician and author, most recently, of ‘The Covenant of Water’. Dr Verghese delivered the inaugural address at the 13th ...
Abraham Verghese would ... He also said reading was the only way to enhance a doctor’s imagination for the suffering of patients, mentioning books like Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich ...
New this week The author of “The Splendid and the Vile” portrays the months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the ... “Presumed Guilty.” If a book is not in a rank since the ...
With the arrival of the New Year, tricity readers can look forward to the completion of pending infrastructure projects to decongest traffic on Airport Road, hope for safer public spaces with ...