Stories By Ed Voves
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
March 3, 2024To label How to Live Safely as a human comedy is a bit of a stretch...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
February 29, 2024For those who fell in the “only” 7 percent category, the decision to deport them was...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Music Instinct by Philip Ball
February 27, 2024The amount of factual detail and insights that Ball brings to the themes under discussion is...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
February 24, 2024The legions of admirers of Smith's other novels, notably The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series,...
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Art & Design
Art Review: An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
February 22, 2024The image of Dr. Gross evoked memories of scenes of carnage which Americans, north and south,...
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Art & Design
Art Review: Late Renoir at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
February 16, 2024In the case of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, some were even put...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
February 15, 2024The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
February 10, 2024In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Songs of Hollywood by Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson
February 5, 2024For the next few years, Hollywood musicals, climaxing in 42nd Street (1933), would be "backstage" pictures....
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Biography
Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
February 3, 2024Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...