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Photograph by Jaime Hogge A South African man with Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative disorder that often leaves its sufferers immobile, walks his symptoms into submission. A Broadway singer, silenced for 30 years by multiple sclerosis, recovers his...

This post is an excerpt from The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician’s First Year by Matt McCarthy. During McCarthy's first shift as an intern at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, he and another doctor called Baio were...

I met Aiden in 2008 when he was seven years old. The previous year, he had moved with his family from New York to California, and the transition had been difficult. He missed his friends in his old neighborhood and his cousins who had lived nearby. When...

Cover art for “The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin.” (Courtesy Penguin Random House) Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia for 15 years and there’s no sign his reign is going to end soon. A new book looks at his rise to power and the hold he...

An Excerpt from Eli Sanders's New Book, While the City Slept, Which Grew Out of His Pulitzer Prize–Winning Coverage of the South Park Murder Case by Eli Sanders On old maps, the Duwamish River bends like discarded ribbon as it passes through a valley...