Stories By John R. Guthrie
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...
Science
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder That Inspired The Greatest Scientists of All Time in Their Own Words
April 4, 2025Duccio Machetto opines in the book’s introduction that, “Today science and theology are more aware of...
Fiction Reviews
Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer
April 3, 2025On arriving at his small and isolated army base in Korea, Sloane is met by Larry...