Stories By Ed Voves
Art
Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum
September 19, 2025Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
September 19, 2025In this profound and spirited work, Pinker champions the civilizing process that, according to his detailed...
Art & Design
Art Review: de Kooning: A Retrospective, MoMA
September 12, 2025De Kooning exhibited six "Bitch Goddess" paintings when most American men preferred to watch Marilyn Monroe...
Biography
Book Review: Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
September 12, 2025Woolf spent much of her life trying to free herself from the grasp of the past,...
Italy
Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
September 3, 2025Carthage, however, was not merely conquered by Rome. As the title of Miles' book asserts, Carthage...
Art
Art Review: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 30, 2025Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an...
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...
Art
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...




