California Literary Review

Ed Voves

Ed Voves is a freelance writer, based in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, the artist Anne Lloyd, and a swarm of cats who love curling up with good books. Mr. Voves graduated with a B.A. in History from LaSalle University in 1976 and a Masters in Information Science from Drexel University in 1989. After teaching for several years with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, he worked in the news research department for "The Philadelphia Inquirer" and the "Philadelphia Daily News," 1985 to 2003. It was with the "Daily News," that he began his freelance writing, doing book reviews and author interviews with such notable figures as Umberto Eco, Maurice Sendak, and Peter O'Toole. For the "Inquirer," he specialized in reviews of major historical works. Following his time with the newspapers, he worked as an independent researcher for Knowledge@Wharton, the online journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the staff of the Free Library of Philadelphia in 2005 and is currently the branch manager of the Kingsessing Branch in southwest Philadelphia. In 2006, he began writing for the "California Literary Review." History of Yoga

Stories By Ed Voves

Art

Art Review: Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia, Philadelphia Museum of Art

By Ed VovesApril 14, 2022

A dark mass of ominous clouds invades the blue sky in La Grande Bacchanale. In Et...
Art

Art Review: Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, Discovery Princeton University Art Museum

By Ed VovesApril 3, 2022

Zhang transformed Mr. Quaker into Chairman Mao five years after he emigrated to the United States....
Asian American

Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch

By Ed VovesMarch 28, 2022

As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
Biography

Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell

By Ed VovesMarch 26, 2022

Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
Books

Book Review: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

By Ed VovesMarch 23, 2022

The Garden of Evening Mists is set in three inter-linked time frames. Past and present struggle...
Art

Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York

By Ed VovesMarch 16, 2022

To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
Art

Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

By Ed VovesMarch 10, 2022

It demonstrates, as few earlier Warhol exhibits have done, the “sensation” that the trend-setting artist created...
Biography

Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan

By Ed VovesMarch 8, 2022

The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
Books

Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur

By Ed VovesMarch 4, 2022

The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
After Image

Manet: Portraying Life — An Interview with Curator Lawrence W. Nichols

By Ed VovesMarch 1, 2022

As I pursued my research into Manet, I discovered that MaryAnne Stevens of the Royal Academy...