Stories By Ed Voves
History
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn
December 8, 2025No one knows for certain who first uttered the notorious statement that "the only good Indian...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Tim Flannery Discusses Global Warming
November 27, 2025"Getting nations to cooperate is important, but I think a quicker solution will come from what...
Art & Design
Art for a New Gilded Age
November 26, 2025Museums are designed – and public museums are mandated – to act as the stewards of...

Art & Design
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 19, 2025The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...

Art & Design
John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum
November 14, 2025Constable's approach to landscape painting, however, was far more than an exercise in nostalgia. Instead, he...

Art & Design
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 12, 2025Explaining the daring additions of paintings by Matisse and Picasso to the Stein collection, Leo wrote...

Fiction Reviews
Book Review: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy
November 6, 2025Troy's novel has much to recommend it, including sensitive character delineation and powerful narrative set pieces....

Art
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 3, 2025But before he retreated into his private realm of race horses and ballet dancers, Degas was...

Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
November 3, 2025It was at Oxford University that Burne-Jones found divine beauty and William Morris. They shared a...

Art
Art Review: Van Gogh Up Close, Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 28, 2025Indeed, if you can manage it in the crowded museum galleries, select a painting, perhaps Wheatfield...











