Stories By Ed Voves
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
July 5, 2026Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian...
Art
Frida Kahlo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
June 29, 2026Art critics may speculate about the influences on Kahlo’s style or her place in modern art....
Non-Fiction Reviews
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
June 24, 2026For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
Great Britain
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
June 20, 2026Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
June 18, 2026It was partly in reaction to the religious discord and iconoclasm of the Reformation, that artists...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Power of Art by Simon Schama
May 26, 2026For all of his own moral blemishes, Caravaggio knew exactly how to please the princes of...

Art
The Dawn of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
May 8, 2026The statue is nicknamed “The Lady of Brussels” because its home museum is in Belgium. It...

Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
May 4, 2026As Barnstone notes in his introduction, Aramaic has verse forms that are difficult to render in...

Art & Design
Two New York City Exhibits Explore the Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice
April 23, 2026The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...

Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
April 16, 2026Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...








