Stories By Ed Voves
Biography
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...
History
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...
Fiction Reviews
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,...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Sherlockian< by Graham Moore
July 8, 2025There is a telling scene in the novel, when Conan Doyle visits the theatre managed by...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
June 29, 2025Homans' concluding remarks, cogent and powerfully expressed like the rest of Apollo's Angels, are going to...
Art
Art Review: Alessi: Ethical and Radical at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
June 28, 2025The Tea and Coffee Piazza sets, produced in limited editions of ninety-nine, with three artist’s proofs,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
June 26, 2025Born nearly five hundred years ago, Montaigne was one of the last great thinkers of the...




