An account of the SARS virus outbreak of 2003 warns readers that the event served as a harbinger for future epidemics, discussing how the virus prompted international fear, significantly compromised Asian trade, prompted the efforts of scientists to find a vaccine, and influenced the control operati[...]

Thrown together by circumstance, six fathers--a sound engineer, a sculptor, a film producer, a chef, a memoirist, a gangster--meet each morning at a local Tribeca coffee shop after walking their children to their exclusive school. Over the course of a single school year, we are privy to their secret[...]

With flights of improvisation around the basket, and his towering afro, the author became one of the most charismatic (and revolutionary) players basketball has ever known. There is Julius, the bright, inquisitive son of a Long Island domestic worker who wanted to be respected for more than just his[...]