Stories By Ed Voves
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Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
March 23, 2024These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Destiny and Desire by Carlos Fuentes
March 21, 2024A decapitated head washes ashore near the Mexican resort city of Acapulco. A young man, Josué,...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Sherlockian< by Graham Moore
March 19, 2024There is a telling scene in the novel, when Conan Doyle visits the theatre managed by...
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Dance
Book Review: Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
March 13, 2024Homans' concluding remarks, cogent and powerfully expressed like the rest of Apollo's Angels, are going to...
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Art & Design
Art Review: Alessi: Ethical and Radical at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
March 12, 2024The Tea and Coffee Piazza sets, produced in limited editions of ninety-nine, with three artist’s proofs,...
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Biography
Book Review: How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
March 9, 2024Born nearly five hundred years ago, Montaigne was one of the last great thinkers of the...
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Art
Art Review: Michelangelo Pistoletto Exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
March 8, 2024Pistoletto first gained prominence in the world of art in the early 1960's with his Quadri...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
March 7, 2024Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
March 5, 2024Nevertheless, it is a considerable shock to read indictments of Washington in the letters of Patriot...
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Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
March 4, 2024Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...