Cover artist: J. J. Sempe Publication Date: December 5, 1983 Page Count: 208 pages In this issue:Annals of Scholarship I-TROUBLE IN THE ARCHIVES by Janet Malcolm. ANNALS OF SCHOLARSHIP about the unorthodox views on Freud held by psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson. Writer learned of him in Aug., 1981 when 2 articles on him by Ralph Blumenthal, appeared in the N.Y. "Times". In the mid-seventies, Masson, a prof. of Sanskrit at the Univ. of Toronto, & a... Fiction Weddings! by Peter Gordon. Our boys, Will & Phil are getting married. Will met Lucy in a CVS store & fell in love. Phil saw Betsy in a McDonald's Town House. Will's wedding is next week. Phil's is next month. Will is older. He plays the piano in a Sheraton piano bar... Books Children's Books for Christmas by Faith McNulty. The Theatre Voice from Abroad by Edith Oliver. Fiction My First Cousin by Sergei Dovlatov. Writer tells about his life in Russia with his older first cousin Nikolai, who was nicknamed Kolya. Kolya was an exemplary Soviet boy, winning awards at school as a top student. Then, one day, Kolya urinated on the school director. Because of his previous good record, he was still allowed... Comment by Ian Frazier. Comment by a reporter who writes about the press ban during the Grenada invasion & Defense Secretary Weinberger's "safety" excuse for it. Reporter remembered Floyd Gibbons, correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in WW I. Gibbons crossed the Atlantic aboard a steamer that he knew would pass through the German... The Talk of the Town Hunch by William McKibben. Talk story about June Roche's predictions for the colors for fall, 1984. June Roche is the fashion director for Milliken & Company. Twice each year she issues the Milliker color chart and predicts the colors that she thinks will be hot the following year in fashion, cars, artificial flowers, and... The Talk of the Town Homecoming by Mark Singer. Talk story about the homecoming game of the Classen Comets, the local high-school football team in the writer's Midwestern town. The Comets have a long football tradition of losing. Last year they lost all nine of their games, and this year they lost their first eight. About a third... A Reporter at Large HAT CREEK AND THE McCLOUD by Bill Barich. A REPORTER AT LARGE about trout fishing in the mountains of Northern California. Writer goes to Hat Creek, on the edge of the Shasta National Forest, which is one of the richest trout streams in the world, and then meets a friend, Paul Deeds, who goes with him to the... The Talk of the Town Folding Paper by William McKibben. Talk story about Alice Gray--the sign on her door at the museum of Natural History reads "Alice Gray, Insects & Origami." Tells about her previous career as an entomologist & her current work with origami. Though she says she is in retirement, Alice Gray bears chief responsibility... Dancing Americans from Abroad by Arlene Croce. Poetry Gray Eyes by Tess Gallagher. When she speaks it is like coming onto a grave... Poetry Time by Amy Clampitt. It may be we are in the last days... |