Fiction Game Farm by John Rolfe Gardiner. When Michael's mother said her 3 nieces could have been hotel girls, she meant that they could have had their coming out parties in Roanoke's elegant hotel, where both she and his Aunt Ailene had been presented. Ailene married Uncle Eddie 9 years before Michael's mother married, and they moved...

Comment by Karen Kaminsky. On April 23, 1987, Natan and Etya Tkach, Soviet Jews in their seventies, were refused permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union in order to join their daughter, Klavdia Fridman, their son-in-law, Ezik Fridman, and their grandson, Leonid in the United States. This was the 20th time their...

Reflections THE OTHER DAY (AS CULLED FROM THE NEW YORK"TIMES" OF AUGUST 9TH) by Richard Harris. REFLECTIONS about an average news day, as summarized by the writer from eleven New York "Times" articles from Aug. 9, 1987. Tells about an article on Nauru, an island in the South Pacific; an article on Edwina Haynes, a poor black woman of Belle Glades, Florida, who was shot in...

A Reporter at Large I-THE THIN EDGE by Robert Shaplen. REPORTER AT LARGE about the Philippines. Writer visited there 18 months after the toppling of the dictatoraship of Ferdinand Marcos in Feb., 1986 & the coming to power of Corazon Aquino. There is growing concern over the government's inability to cope with its multiple problems. Pres. Aquino still enjoys a...

The Current Cinema TEMPORARY MADNESSES: FORSTER, MAILER, HEPBURN by Pauline Kael.

Books by Terrence Rafferty.

The Talk of the Town Land Creatures by Lisa Walker. Talk story about Ed Gillet, the world's foremost kayaker. On June 25th, he set out on an unprecendented twenty-two-hundred mile voyage across the Pacific Ocean--from Monterey, Cal. to Maui, Hawaii. He was already famous among kayak people for the ten thousand miles of kayaking he had done...

The Talk of the Town The Blue Room by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about the Milford Plaza Hotel... Most people know it has a big "M" on top of it... It was closed for several years in the late '70s. Before it was the Milford it was the Hotel Manhattan. After that it was the Royal Manhattan & after that it...

Our Far-Flung Correspondents BUDDIES by Jane Stern. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about the three-day annual meeting of a national organization called Wee Scots, which took place at the Columbus Ramada Inn in Columbus, Indiana. The organization was founded by Jim and Donna Newton, of Columbus. The Wee Scots collect Scottie-dog memorabilia...

Obituary by Calvin Trillin. Obituary of "New Yorker" writer Richard Harris, who died on Sunday, Aug. 23, 1987...

Fiction Diary of a Flying Man by Randy Cohen. Story about a man who has learned to fly, but does so awkwardly. He works at the Pools and Playgrounds Planning Board in N.Y.C. Because city officials are involved in corruption, he wants to discover culprits through the knowledge he can obtain via his aerial views. He thinks that some...

Poetry Polonaise: A Variation by Joseph Brodsky. Autumn in your hemisphere whoops cranes and owls...

Poetry Aquarium by Nancy Willard. The frog who works out...