Stories By Ed Voves
Art & Design
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 7, 2026The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
August 5, 2026The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
August 2, 2026It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
Art
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Fiction Reviews
The Stranger by Max Frei
July 24, 2026The Stranger is a translation of the first of a wildly popular series of novels from...
History
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
July 22, 2026Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
Art & Design
Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 18, 2026Matisse, in an essay written many years later for another Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition, appraised...
Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 15, 2026Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
July 15, 2026Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
July 12, 2026Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...




