Stories By Ed Voves
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...
Art & Design
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
March 22, 2025Tooker’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
March 20, 2025Writers 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
March 18, 2025Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
March 10, 2025Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian...
Art
Frida Kahlo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
March 4, 2025Art critics may speculate about the influences on Kahlo’s style or her place in modern art....
Religion
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
February 28, 2025For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
Art
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
February 24, 2025Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...