Stories By Ed Voves
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Music
Book Review: The Music Instinct by Philip Ball
October 12, 2022The amount of factual detail and insights that Ball brings to the themes under discussion is...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
October 9, 2022The legions of admirers of Smith's other novels, notably The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series,...
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Art
Art Review: An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
October 7, 2022The image of Dr. Gross evoked memories of scenes of carnage which Americans, north and south,...
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Art
Art Review: Late Renoir at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 30, 2022In the case of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, some were even put...
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Great Britain
Book Review: Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
September 29, 2022The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his...
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History
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
September 24, 2022In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
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Movies
Book Review: The Songs of Hollywood by Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson
September 20, 2022For the next few years, Hollywood musicals, climaxing in 42nd Street (1933), would be "backstage" pictures....
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Biography
Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
September 17, 2022Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
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Biography
Book Review: Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
September 12, 2022Jesus of Nazareth started to preach and heal the sick when he “was beginning about the...
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France
Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
September 4, 2022Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...
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