Stories By Ed Voves
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Songs of Hollywood by Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson
September 13, 2026For the next few years, Hollywood musicals, climaxing in 42nd Street (1933), would be "backstage" pictures....
Writers
Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
September 12, 2026Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
September 5, 2026Jesus of Nazareth started to preach and heal the sick when he “was beginning about the...
Vietnam
Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
August 28, 2026Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...
Art & Design
Art Review: Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris at the Philadelphia Museum Of Art
August 21, 2026If 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
August 12, 2026In 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
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...




