Stories By Ed Voves
Books
Book Review: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
August 29, 2025The theme of making a life choice between love or ambition has been a staple of...
Books
Book Review: René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum
August 23, 2025All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that...
Design
Collab: Four Decades of Giving Modern and Contemporary Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 14, 2025Put them together as an integrated unit and you have a masterpiece. And in doing so,...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doc by Mary Doria Russell
August 12, 2025It is the daily struggle of life that blights the lives of Russell’s protagonists. Ill-health and...
Art
Art Review: Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore
August 7, 2025While Robinson’s depiction of a pensive young woman in a sylvan setting hardly seems revolutionary today,...
Military
Book Review: Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire by Robin Waterfield
August 4, 2025It did not take long before most of the Diadochi were gripped by a lust for...
Art & Design
Art Review: Health for Sale, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 1, 2025Designed for short-term use to promote public health or sell the latest "miracle" drug, medical posters...
Art
Art Review: Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle, Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 28, 2025Chagall was a major exception to the ready embrace of western modes of art and thought...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julie P. Gelardi
July 23, 2025Following this betrayal, the Romanov dynasty was swept off the stage of history. Many of the...
Art & Design
Art Review: Gauguin: Maker of Myth, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
July 22, 2025“You know that I have Indian blood, Inca blood in me, and it’s reflected in everything...




