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Even with the advances in technology and imaging, Verghese, who was featured on one of Samuels?? radio shows, says he believes that the ritual still needs to be taught...
...continue to take care of me now that I’m not a child anymore?’ and he replied, ‘I’ll take care of you until you’re a doctor’” recalls Samuels??now chief of neurology at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital...
...Samuels?? tone—balanced between sarcastic and vulnerable, innocent and disillusioned—invites the reader to connect with his text. No matter what he’s discussing, Samuels writes non-judgmentally and makes it possible to identify with his subjects, even if that person daydreams about using his knowledge of demolition for acts of terrorism. Samuels universalizes his subjects, presenting a world that is no longer governed by God or tradition, one in which his subjects struggle to reconstitute a shattered belief system and grapple to find meaning. When writing about a rehabilitation program, Samuels...
...with “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” is not that Samuels fails to tap into the palpable uncertainty that regulates our lives, but that he overloads us with extraneous phrases and superfluous essays and so violates our need for order and regularity. Ultimately, with Samuels?? book—much as in life—we are left clinging on to particular moments that we find significant and pocket-sized absolutes...
...common an unpleasantly instrumental approach to people and language that diminishes the common store of trust. The subject has no power to alter a reporter’s approach to his or her subject, or to take back a single word that they said.” Told in Samuels??s clean and direct style, “The Runner” manages to find reflected in a sociopath many of the tendencies of American society at large. The account raises questions about many of this country’s principles and institutions that linger long after...