Stories By Ed Voves
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
November 5, 2026The passing of Swamplandia!, a crass, hokey "hicksville" where live chickens are suspended from wires to...
History
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
November 4, 2026These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Destiny and Desire by Carlos Fuentes
November 2, 2026A decapitated head washes ashore near the Mexican resort city of Acapulco. A young man, Josué,...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Sherlockian< by Graham Moore
October 31, 2026There is a telling scene in the novel, when Conan Doyle visits the theatre managed by...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
October 23, 2026Homans' concluding remarks, cogent and powerfully expressed like the rest of Apollo's Angels, are going to...
Art & Design
Art Review: Alessi: Ethical and Radical at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 22, 2026The Tea and Coffee Piazza sets, produced in limited editions of ninety-nine, with three artist’s proofs,...
Philosophy
Book Review: How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
October 20, 2026Born nearly five hundred years ago, Montaigne was one of the last great thinkers of the...
Art & Design
Art Review: Michelangelo Pistoletto Exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 18, 2026Pistoletto first gained prominence in the world of art in the early 1960's with his Quadri...
Classics
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
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...




