We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Dr. Abraham Verghese teaches medical students at Stanford University's School of Medicine. But he has another calling: ...

There’s a large whiteboard to the side of Abraham Verghese, acclaimed author and, by day, professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. He swivels in his chair to point to it over Zoom. This is ...

Dr. Abraham Verghese is vice chair of education at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He's actually an expert in bedside manner, teaching medical students about the importance of the human ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Oprah Winfrey has selected "The Covenant of Water," written by acclaimed author Abraham Verghese, as her newest book ...

When asked to describe the south Indian state of Kerala, the word that springs to mind for Dr. Abraham Verghese is this: “Water – 44 rivers, countless streams and lagoons and hundreds of miles of ...

The Covenant of Water follows three generations of a family in the coastal state of Kerala, India, where they're haunted by a devastating event, over and over: In every generation, someone in the ...

Reviewer Sibani Ram is a recent graduate of Duke University who grew up in Dubuque. See the author: Dr. Abraham Verghese will read from "The Covenant of Water" at the Iowa City Public Library at 7 p.m ...

For the fiction writer, expertise has become something of a superpower. There was a time, back when literature enjoyed a central position in culture, that novels were commonly informed by worldly ...

Dr. Abraham Verghese teaches medical students at Stanford University's School of Medicine. But he has another calling: author. His novel "The Covenant of Water" (Grove/Atlantic), a multi-generational ...