Stories By Ed Voves
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,...
Greece
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...
Medicine
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
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Justice For Hedgehogs by Ronald Dworkin
July 18, 2025Dworkin believes firmly in “cooperative” interpretation, reinforcing ethical precepts with insights from history, literature and philosophy...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
July 12, 2025The passing of Swamplandia!, a crass, hokey "hicksville" where live chickens are suspended from wires to...
Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
July 11, 2025These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Mexico
Book Review: Destiny and Desire by Carlos Fuentes
July 10, 2025A decapitated head washes ashore near the Mexican resort city of Acapulco. A young man, Josué,...




