Stories By Ed Voves

Historical Fiction
Book Review: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy
November 6, 2025Troy's novel has much to recommend it, including sensitive character delineation and powerful narrative set pieces....

Art
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 3, 2025But before he retreated into his private realm of race horses and ballet dancers, Degas was...

Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
November 3, 2025It was at Oxford University that Burne-Jones found divine beauty and William Morris. They shared a...

Art & Design
Art Review: Van Gogh Up Close, Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 28, 2025Indeed, if you can manage it in the crowded museum galleries, select a painting, perhaps Wheatfield...

Art
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
October 24, 2025This exhibition of the works of Henry Ossawa Tanner is the first major reappraisal of the...

Art
Art Review: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
October 17, 2025In his Portrait of a Young Man, painted in 1478, Antonello fused the psychological intensity of...
Biography
Book Review: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
October 11, 2025For an artist who vied with Rembrandt in painting self-portraits, van Gogh seldom allowed himself to...
Art & Design
Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City
October 9, 2025After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...
Opera
Book Review: Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
October 4, 2025Perhaps, the best way of approaching Conrad’s book is to regard it primarily as a meditation...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon by Martin Kemp
September 30, 2025The Vietnam War had been shredding bodies and hopes for so long that it hardly seemed...










