At 32, with the publication of her first book, "Interpreter of Maladies," London-born Jhumpa Lahiri is being compared to old masters of the short story for the elegance of her plots and the clarity of ...

Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee was treating one of his patients, a woman with advanced abdominal cancer who had relapsed multiple times, when she asked him what seemed like a simple question. "She ...