Stories By Ed Voves
France
Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
May 5, 2025Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...
Art
Art Review: Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris at the Philadelphia Museum Of Art
April 30, 2025If Salon Cubism pleased nobody in 1912, the recreation of the gallery from the Salon d'Automne...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
April 18, 2025In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
Art & Design
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 13, 2025The 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
April 12, 2025The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
Art & Design
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
April 8, 2025And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
April 8, 2025It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
Fiction Reviews
The Stranger by Max Frei
March 31, 2025The Stranger is a translation of the first of a wildly popular series of novels from...
Non-Fiction Reviews
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
March 27, 2025Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
Art
Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
March 23, 2025Matisse, in an essay written many years later for another Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition, appraised...




