Fiction Horse Dreams by Elizabeth Inness-Brown. One summer the writer lived on a friend's farm. Her friend had two horses, a Morgan and a quarter horse, and the writer began to have dreams about them, especially the gelding. The first dream came on a cool June night. When she woke up she recalled a water-color...

The Talk of the Town Sniff by William McKibben. Talk story about Scentron, which was invented by Donald Spector. Scentron is a car cigarette lighter that accepts an inexpensive disposable cartridge containing a waxy block of fragrance, and emits a blast of smell each time the lighter is depressed. Tells about some of Mr. Spector's other inventions. He said...

Our Far-Flung Correspondents by Calvin Trillin. DEPARTMENT OF AMPLIFICATION on an OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about shopping in the markets of Provence, France (Sep. 17, 1984). Writer was visiting the Rialto market in Venice, very early one morning in July, when he had a revalation. As a child he had accompanied his father, who was a...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Comment by Donald Barthelme. A friend writes that when he didn't win the 41 million dollars in the N.Y. State Lottery last week he had to change his plans a bit. He had tentatively written out a few checks but not signed them. He thinks they represent a moderately sound set of decisions. The...

The Talk of the Town A Little Learning by William McKibben. First part of three-part talk story about courses at the Learning Annex, New York's largest adult-education school. Tells about a class conducted by Howard Ross, a consultant in the data-processing industry. He advises Annex students on how they can enter the consulting field. Tells about the student...

Books by John Lukacs.

Personal History AT WAR WITH MY SKIN by John Updike. PERSONAL HISTORY telling how the writer has lived with psoriasis, a skin ailment. It is a metabolic disorder that causes the epidermis, which normally replaces itself in the course of several days, to speed up the process and to produce excess skin cells. A tendency to it is inherited. The...

Letter from New Delhi by Ved Mehta. The Sikhs' struggle for some kind of autonomy-there seems to be no consensus among them on what they want-is being spoken of as "the holy battle of the turban against the cap". They wear the turban and the Hindus the cap. Tells about the significance of these symbols...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Sanford Schwartz.

Fiction Engagements by Tama Janowitz. Cora is a student at Yale, studying feminine criticism; she meets Ray Conners but is indifferent. HE invites her to NYC to meet his wealthy parents. Ray has a back problem from falling into an empty elevator shaft after finding his girlfriend in the bathroom with another man. RAy shows...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Ken by Anthony Bailey. Talk story about Ken Livingstone, the Leader of the Greater London Council, the over-all city governing body, which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Government is in the process of abolishing. Through his campaign to save the G.L.C., Livingstone has become one of the best-known public figures in Britain...

Poetry On Visiting Uncle Walter at Creedmoor by Ellen Kaufman. Hungarian, our too-long faces stare...

Poetry The Country Beyond the Hill by John N. Morris. Without warning you come to the unremarkable...

Poetry Milkweed by Katha Pollitt. Ghost feathers, angel bones, I se them rise...