Category: Past Issues
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Answers to Literary Quiz #4
Saul Bellow at the Miami Book Fair International of 1990 Pearl S. Buck, ca.1932 Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth Thomas de Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier Saul Bellow: Henderson the Rain King Robert Louis Stevenson: St. Ives Upton…
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Literary Quiz – #4
FIRST SENTENCES OF GREAT CLASSICS TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE! Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun one day. The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed. It was Wang Lung’s marriage day. I have often asked how it was, and through what series of steps, that…
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Richard Selzer on writing
Photography by pikimota Someone asked me why a surgeon would write. Why, when the shelves are already too full? They sag under the deadweight of books. To add a single adverb is to risk exceeding the strength of the boards. A surgeon should abstain. A surgeon, whose fingers are more at home in the steamy…
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Placebo effect or care effect? Four examples from the literary world
Pekka Louhiala, D.Med.Sci., PhD Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland Raimo Puustinen, MD, PhD, FT School of Medicine, University of Tampere, Finland It is common knowledge that patients may exhibit improvement following an encounter in which no specific drugs or effective medications were prescribed. Indeed, even fictional doctors have often been depicted as knowing that…
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The anonymous Olmec artisan and Velázquez
Alejandro GoyriAzcapotzalcoCarlos Valverde-RMéxico City, México In México, despite long-standing cultural domination by Catholic Spain, significant numbers Pre-Columbian figurines in terracotta, jade, clay, and other materials have survived. Some of these objects clearly represent persons afflicted by some disease. One such small sculpture that has attracted our attention is a delicate jade figurine from the ancient…
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JB Murphy: Chicago’s great but controversial surgeon
Patrick GuinanGeorge DuneaChicago, Illinois, United States The grand surgical auditorium of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago still bears the name of JB Murphy, the tall, slim, blue-eyed boy from Appleton, Wisconsin, born in 1857 on a farm into an Irish family that escaped the horrors of the potato famine to make a new…
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Volume 8 Special Issue Summer 2016
olume 8, Special Issue – Summer 2016
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Volume 8 Issue 3 Summer 2016
Volume 8, Issue 3 – Summer 2016