Stories By Ed Voves
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...
Fiction Reviews
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
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 & Design
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
History
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Songs of Hollywood by Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson
May 21, 2025For the next few years, Hollywood musicals, climaxing in 42nd Street (1933), would be "backstage" pictures....
Theatre
Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
May 19, 2025Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
May 13, 2025Jesus of Nazareth started to preach and heal the sick when he “was beginning about the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
May 5, 2025Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...




