The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Adam Gopnik.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Books by George Steiner.

Profiles I-STEALING A MARCH ON THE WORLD by Dan Hofstadter. PROFILE of photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. Wishing to be always the person seeing, never the person seen, he has preserved his incognito so well that he is perhaps best described as the fellow holding the paper in front of his face(as he did when he received an honorary degree...

Fiction The Most: Beautiful Place by Peter Corodimas. Buddy Harris is separated from his wife Melanie, who has custody of their two young children. When Buddy reads a Jehovah's Witnesses' pamphlet about how there are 30 child ren who die every minute, he decides to get his children from his mother-in-law Bev's house. Since Cliff, Bev's...

Fiction Letter to the Lady of the House by Richard Bausch. On the eve of his seventieth birthday the narrator writes a letter to Marie, his wife of fifty years because over the last few years they've been unable to find themselves in the same room together without pain & bitterness. He's come to see their lives as a daily round...

Comment by Ellen Pall. Comment about a young man the writer calls Shu, who mobilized the group of art students who built the Goddess of Democracy last May in Beijing. In September Shu managed to slip out of China on a routine student visa. In Shanghai in mid-May, he had helped art students...

The Diplomatic Round ETERNAL SEVERITIES by John Newhouse. THE DIPLOMATIC ROUND about Europe where the postwar order is crumbling swiftly. The Cold War is over & the West has won it. Soviet Pres. Gorbachev & fellow-pragmatists within the so-called socialist bloc are adopting Western values & practices, &, aroused by Gorbachev's hardheaded approach to his country's...

The Theatre THE DOUBLETALKERS by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town Home Improvements by Lisa Miller. Talk Story about taking, a tour of Gracie Mansion. The writer wanted to see the mansion before the new tenants moved in. David Dinkins & Rudolph Giuliani differ from Ed Koch as much as they do from each other, & each is likely to make his mark on Gracie Mansion...

The Talk of the Town Mother and Daughter by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about a visit to the Wesleyan Cinema Archive with Ingrid Bergman's daughter, actress Isabella Rossellini. The trip took three hours, and at one point Isabella turned to her filmmaking friend and said, "Mother kept everything, and when she died the four of us children--Pia, Ingrid, Roberto, and...

Poetry Overdue Pilgrimage to Nova Scotia by Elizabeth Bishop. Your village touched us by not knowing how...

Poetry Our Fall by Elizabeth Macklin. It's not only just beginning to be unwarm...

Poetry Sails by Adam Zagajewski. Some evenings, scarlet like Phoenician sails...