California Literary Review

Ed Voves

Ed Voves is a freelance writer, based in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, the artist Anne Lloyd, and a swarm of cats who love curling up with good books. Mr. Voves graduated with a B.A. in History from LaSalle University in 1976 and a Masters in Information Science from Drexel University in 1989. After teaching for several years with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, he worked in the news research department for "The Philadelphia Inquirer" and the "Philadelphia Daily News," 1985 to 2003. It was with the "Daily News," that he began his freelance writing, doing book reviews and author interviews with such notable figures as Umberto Eco, Maurice Sendak, and Peter O'Toole. For the "Inquirer," he specialized in reviews of major historical works. Following his time with the newspapers, he worked as an independent researcher for Knowledge@Wharton, the online journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the staff of the Free Library of Philadelphia in 2005 and is currently the branch manager of the Kingsessing Branch in southwest Philadelphia. In 2006, he began writing for the "California Literary Review." History of Yoga

Stories By Ed Voves

History

God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis

By Ed VovesMay 13, 2020

For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
Art

The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner

By Ed VovesMay 11, 2020

Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
Art

Mirror of the World by Julian Bell

By Ed VovesMay 9, 2020

It was partly in reaction to the religious discord and iconoclasm of the Reformation, that artists...
Art

The Power of Art by Simon Schama

By Ed VovesApril 28, 2020

For all of his own moral blemishes, Caravaggio knew exactly how to please the princes of...
Art

The Dawn of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

By Ed VovesApril 20, 2020

The statue is nicknamed “The Lady of Brussels” because its home museum is in Belgium. It...
Books

Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone

By Ed VovesApril 20, 2020

As Barnstone notes in his introduction, Aramaic has verse forms that are difficult to render in...
Art

Two New York City Exhibits Explore the Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice

By Ed VovesApril 19, 2020

The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...
Books

Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor

By Ed VovesApril 19, 2020

Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...
Art

Art Review: Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia, Philadelphia Museum of Art

By Ed VovesApril 19, 2020

A dark mass of ominous clouds invades the blue sky in La Grande Bacchanale. In Et...
Art

Art Review: Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, Discovery Princeton University Art Museum

By Ed VovesApril 19, 2020

Zhang transformed Mr. Quaker into Chairman Mao five years after he emigrated to the United States....