Stories By Ed Voves
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
June 21, 2025Nevertheless, it is a considerable shock to read indictments of Washington in the letters of Patriot...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
June 20, 2025Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
June 16, 2025To label How to Live Safely as a human comedy is a bit of a stretch...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
June 15, 2025For those who fell in the “only” 7 percent category, the decision to deport them was...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Music Instinct by Philip Ball
June 13, 2025The amount of factual detail and insights that Ball brings to the themes under discussion is...
Great Britain
Book Review: Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
June 11, 2025The legions of admirers of Smith's other novels, notably The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series,...
Art & Design
Art Review: An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
June 8, 2025The image of Dr. Gross evoked memories of scenes of carnage which Americans, north and south,...
Art
Art Review: Late Renoir at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
May 31, 2025In the case of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, some were even put...
Great Britain
Book Review: Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
May 31, 2025The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
May 26, 2025In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...




