Stories By Ed Voves
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn
August 4, 2024No one knows for certain who first uttered the notorious statement that "the only good Indian...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Tim Flannery Discusses Global Warming
July 23, 2024"Getting nations to cooperate is important, but I think a quicker solution will come from what...
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Art & Design
Art for a New Gilded Age
July 22, 2024Museums are designed – and public museums are mandated – to act as the stewards of...
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Art
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
July 15, 2024The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...
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Art
John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum
July 10, 2024Constable's approach to landscape painting, however, was far more than an exercise in nostalgia. Instead, he...
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Art
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
July 8, 2024Explaining the daring additions of paintings by Matisse and Picasso to the Stein collection, Leo wrote...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy
July 3, 2024Troy's novel has much to recommend it, including sensitive character delineation and powerful narrative set pieces....
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Art & Design
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
June 30, 2024But before he retreated into his private realm of race horses and ballet dancers, Degas was...
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Art
Book Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
June 30, 2024It was at Oxford University that Burne-Jones found divine beauty and William Morris. They shared a...
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Art
Art Review: Van Gogh Up Close, Philadelphia Museum of Art
June 24, 2024Indeed, if you can manage it in the crowded museum galleries, select a painting, perhaps Wheatfield...