Stories By Ed Voves
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
March 10, 2025Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian...
Art & Design
Frida Kahlo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
March 4, 2025Art 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
February 28, 2025For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
Art & Design
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
February 24, 2025Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
Art
Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
February 22, 2025It 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
January 29, 2025For 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
January 8, 2025The statue is nicknamed “The Lady of Brussels” because its home museum is in Belgium. It...
Books
Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
January 3, 2025As 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
December 23, 2024The 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
December 15, 2024Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...