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 ...
On its first page “The Emperor of All Maladies” sets forth its intention: to be a definitive history of how cancer has been understood, treated, feared and politicized throughout all of recorded human ...
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 ...
In ancient times, people didn't have a word for cancer. And centuries ago, the treatment for cancer was just as deadly as the disease. Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All ...
The Emperor of All Maladies artfully weaves three different films in one. THE STORY OF CANCER: The Emperor of All Maladies examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s ...