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Behind every word the reader can sense the implacable tread of life itself moving warily, silently, away from oblivion. By any means necessary. Read More

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie carries a dozen boldly sketched characters through 588 engrossing pages with a tale that pokes into our (surprisingly sensitive) national and racial selves. Read More

Grammar is a mental machine which takes our thoughts and makes them comprehensible to others. Read More

A snapshot of the aftercare and recovery from organ prolapse surgery, and some advice and suggestions for others. Read More

This is a magnificent book, and I am not alone in thinking so. The New York Times Book Review calls it a “tour de force,” others compare it to Madame Bovary and War and Peace. Read More

Magnuson skitters over the top of her Indian experience, barely able to breathe. Read More

If forgiveness can bloom for the Gardner family, then there is hope for us all. Read More

Dr. Siri is the wise-cracking Laotian septuagenarian national coroner of Laos. That's funny already, right? Read More

200,000 American women per year who have surgery for pelvic organ prolapse Read More