The Eastside View

Avila, March 31, 2013— A FAVORITE CITY of mine, Ávila, accent the first syllable, please, is a small old city, still entirely encircled by...

Hotel Zurbano, Madrid, March 29, 2013— B ACK DOWN TO THE CENTER of town last night, about eight o'clock, to find the streets devoid of ...

Hotel Zurbano, Madrid, March 28, 2013— A GOOD MANY YEARS ago we found a marvelous restaurant on the Rue Taylor in Paris, Chez Nick. They s...

N OT LONG AGO we spent two weeks in Rome, first a few days with one couple of old friends, then ten days with another, finally a weekend wi...

February 28, 2013— M Y BEST FRIEND in high school, from 1949 to graduation in 1952, was Merton Tyrell. We were bandmates together: in this ...

T HIS IS AN IMPRESSIVE book, and I don't say that merely because it has forced me to rethink a number of opinions I've held for a n...

W HAT IS IT with all those online reviews of Julian Barnes's novel The Sense of an Ending , anyway? Is it simply that "irony,...

O SVALDO GOLIJOV'S OPERA AINADAMAR , a public rehearsal of which I wrote about here last week, turns out, on seeing it staged yesterday...

Jesus Montoya and Nicole Paiement in rehearsal A T ITS BEST , theater is invigorating, marvelous, and meaningful for its negotiation of indi...

Via Gaetano Sacchi, Roma, January 29, 2013— T HAT TITLE IS NOT Latin for "this" (or "that"), it is Russian for "no...

via Gaetano Sacchi Rome, January 28, 2013— A FEW MORE WORDS on street theater, if you don't mind. Rome is nothing if not theatrical. I...

Via Gaetano Sacchi, Rome; January 28, 2013— H ERE IN THIS not very clear photo you see a pair of street performers just off the Via Corso. ...

Via Gaetano Sacchi, January 22, 2013— T HE MOST MEMORABLE paintings, it seems to me, are like voicemail messages left by dear distant frien...

en route Amsterdam-Apeldoorn, January 16, 2013— The Southernization of American life was an expression of the great turn away from the centr...