Stories By Ed Voves

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
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...

Art & Design
Art Review: Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia, Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 10, 2026A dark mass of ominous clouds invades the blue sky in La Grande Bacchanale. In Et...

Art
Art Review: Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, Discovery Princeton University Art Museum
March 31, 2026Zhang transformed Mr. Quaker into Chairman Mao five years after he emigrated to the United States....

Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
March 26, 2026As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...

History
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 25, 2026Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...

Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
March 21, 2026The Garden of Evening Mists is set in three inter-linked time frames. Past and present struggle...

Religion
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
March 14, 2026To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...

Art
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
March 8, 2026It demonstrates, as few earlier Warhol exhibits have done, the “sensation” that the trend-setting artist created...














