Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
A Critic at Large
The Case Against the Trauma Plot
Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. But does this trope deepen characters, or flatten them into a set of symptoms?
By Parul Sehgal
Medical Dispatch
A Doctor’s Dark Year
In the heart of the pandemic, a trauma surgeon travels to the edge and back.
By Dhruv Khullar