Stories By John R. Guthrie
Medicine
The Common Secret by Susan Wicklund
June 17, 2026Her home was invaded in her absence. Both muddy boot prints and anti-abortion pamphlets were left...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram
June 5, 2026Whether amputating a shrapnel-torn limb or performing an emergency appendectomy, Dr. Tram proved to be remarkably...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
May 20, 2025The story is set in the spring of 1969 in the northwest corner of the country...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer
April 28, 2025Garrity is an archetype, an ill-understood and imperiled hero who after overcoming every obstacle, exits hand-in-hand...
Fiction Reviews
Small Wars by Sadie Jones
April 22, 2025The conflict becomes a war in which, “…there was no truth. It was a nothing, laughable...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Naish
April 17, 2025Naish states that “most dinosaur books look at current views on dinosaurs and briefly recap the...
Fiction Reviews
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
April 14, 2025Even so, to hold The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
April 10, 2025The unit of measure is a “Darwin,” so named by famed geneticist J. B. S. Haldane....
Non-Fiction Reviews
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex
April 9, 2025And those names: JenniferBlowdryer, Sinnamon Love. Sebastian Horsely, a male prostitute, of course. Horsely advocates the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T. R. Reid
April 7, 2025In this great country, for all its goodness, and for all the excellence of the medical...




