“I hate traveling and explorers.”— Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes tropiques (1955) It is an illusion to think that a need to complain about travel is unique…
Posts published by “David Yearsley”
If ever there were steps of power that need storming by an angry mob, they are those of the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard on…
Handel was born with an umlaut on his name: Händel. He rubbed it out after he left his native Germany for a sojourn of several…
One of the longest seconds I ever lived through came just before the beginning the Dies irae from Mozart’s Requiem. The members of the Stanford…
Yesterday began for me before dawn when I awoke, went downstairs and watched footage of the night sky above Kyiv lit up with the bursts…
A grizzled veteran hobbled by bad knees and addled in the head lies on the trainer’s table in the locker room while the Big Game…
On the one-year anniversary of the storming of the U.S. Capitol many were the dire assessments of the state of the American republic. Nor were…
Beginning with Disney’s first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs of 1937, the Mouse House’s message has always been about family. That…
At well over two hours running time, Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up (streaming on Netflix) isn’t exactly a bagatelle, but it mostly retains its satiric…