Books by Alistair Cooke.

Around City Hall Like It Was by Andy Logan. Mayor Koch is faced with mounting charges of corrupt activity by members of his administration. Revelations about the Parking Violations Bureau indicate that its top officials may have received as much as 2 million dollars in bribes during the Koch era for awarding lucrative contracts to private companies that collect...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town The Lip, Pt. III by William McKibben. Third part of three-part talk story about Niagara Falls, about Steven Trotter, who dropped over the falls in a barrel last Aug. 18-the latest person to have attempted the stunt. 5 others, beginning with Annie Taylor, a Kansas schoolteacher whose grave (natural causes) Mr. Trotter has visited, have...

The Talk of the Town The Lip by William McKibben. First part of a 3-part talk story about Niagara Falls. This one is about an exhibit at the New-York Historical Society of more than 250 works of art depicting Niagara Falls , which will be showing until late April. Writer tells about one canvas painted by Frederic Church in...

Fiction Where You'll Find Me by Ann Beattie. Narrator broke her arm when she ran for a bus and slipped on ice. This would be a perfect excuse not to visit her brother Howard in Saratoga, since she was going to drive from the city. To avoid guilt, she goes (by train). She doesn't mind Howard, but his...

Fiction Leaving the Party by Mavis Gallant. Monsieur Fernand Blotte is leaving the party. This was announced on the news, just after the avalanche and before the weather report. Blotte wore a cable-stitch sweater, makeup, and was propped against wall-to-wall bookcase. Blotte has a moderate amount of clean, short hair--party hair, and the...

A Reporter at Large TRANSITION by William Edgett Smith. A REPORTER AT LARGE about Julius Nyerere, former President of the United Republic of Tanzania, and about the political crises his country has faced during the 22 years he ruled. That Tanzania is peaceful, united & relatively stable after 24 years as a nation is Nyerere's great achievement. He sometimes...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. As events in the Philippines galloped toward their conclusion, amazing scenes of successful, peaceful, democratic mass action--scenes that could be believed only because one knew that they were actually happening--appeared on American television "screens or were described in the press. Whatever may occur next...it seems important to...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Annals of the Former World II-RISING FROM THE PLAINS by John McPhee. ANNALS OF THE FORMER WORLD about geology & geologist David Love, now in his early seventies. He grew up on an isolated ranch in Wyoming. His brother Allan was 15 months older. Their sister Phoebe was born many years later. Tells about their 11-room house. It was made up...

The Talk of the Town Boulez by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about Pierre Boulez. The New York Philharmonic announces a series of concerts and conversations that will take place early this month at Avery Fisher Hall and several other places to celebrate the multiple talents of its former music director. In his triple role as composer, conductor, and head...

Poetry Early And Late In The Month by Stanley Plumly. 1. Paddington Recreation Ground...

Poetry The Moon by Howard Moss. Those who think the word "terrace" unusable...