A Reporter at Large II-BIG SUGAR by Alec Wilkinson. REPORTER AT LARGE about harvesting sugarcane in south Florida. The cutters are almost all West Indians; most are Jamaicans & they are badly treated. In the fall of 1941 a number of black Southern men accepted invitations to work as cutters for United States Sugar Corp. in Fla. Tells about...

The Talk of the Town Aground by Paul Corkery. Talk story about an oil-spill in Newport, R.I. which occurred when a Greek tanker, World Prodigy, ran aground on a reef less than a mile beyond a scenic headland called Brenton Point. The government had "federalized" the situation and begun coordinating cleanup efforts about an hour after the accident...

Books by John Updike.

Comment by Adam Gopnik. Comment about the writer & journalist I.F. Stone who died last month. The writer was in Paris & read the obituaries in the French papers & was touched that the editors of "Le Monde" & "Liberation" thought it important to explain who Stone was & what he had done. He...

The Sporting Scene STRANGE REDUX by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about the U.S. Open held in June at Oak Hills, Rochester, N.Y. It was won by Curist Strange, the first man since Ben Hogan, to win the U-S. Open in consecutive years...

The Current Cinema by Terrence Rafferty.

Around City Hall IT AIN'T OVER by Andy Logan. AROUND CITY HALL about the six major contenders for the 1989 New York mayoral race. Edward Koch, David Dinkins, Richard Ravitch & Harrison Goldin are running for the Democratic nomination, and Rudolph Giuliani and Ronald Lauder are running for the Republican nomination. When President Bush spoke at a Republican fund...

The Theatre MURPHY'S-LAW SHAKESPEARE by Mimi Kramer.

The Talk of the Town Fans by Susan Orlean. Talk story about Leo Herschman, owner of the Modern Supply Company, which is on the third floor of a building near City Hall. The store, which opened in 1932, as a joint venture of Leo and his late wife, used to be on Fulton Street, but the building was torn...

The Talk of the Town The Chuck Show by Garrison Keillor. Story about the Chuck show, a Minneapolis-based TV talk show that has a hard time getting high ratings because its competitors discuss topics like "Cross-Dressing at the Washington Post" and "Kids From Nice Homes Who Eat Dirt," while the Chuck show features "Parents from District 18 Discuss Bus...

Fiction Ghost Night by Michael Cunningham. Reuben Glover, a man in his late twenties visits his parents who have retired to Arizona. His father suffers from emphysema. They play Yatzhee and Scrabble and go to movies at the mall. Reuben lives alone in New York. He was a Brown University drop-out who went to blackjack...

Poetry 1815 by Robert Mazzocco. On the island of Elba...

Poetry Reassurance In A Hot Summer by Elizabeth Macklin. The woman and the dragon in the sand-colored room...