Stories By Ed Voves
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
October 15, 2026Nevertheless, it is a considerable shock to read indictments of Washington in the letters of Patriot...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
October 12, 2026To label How to Live Safely as a human comedy is a bit of a stretch...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
October 9, 2026For those who fell in the “only” 7 percent category, the decision to deport them was...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Music Instinct by Philip Ball
October 7, 2026The amount of factual detail and insights that Ball brings to the themes under discussion is...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
October 3, 2026The legions of admirers of Smith's other novels, notably The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series,...
Art & Design
Art Review: An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
October 1, 2026The image of Dr. Gross evoked memories of scenes of carnage which Americans, north and south,...
Art & Design
Art Review: Late Renoir at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 23, 2026In the case of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, some were even put...
Military
Book Review: Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
September 23, 2026The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
September 18, 2026In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...




