Fiction Yellow Dining Room by Rick Rofihe. Denny is an antique book collector. He is over at a friend's place telling him the story of one evening he spent at a mansion in Westchester looking for books to purchase. The mansion is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Logan, who are millionaires. Denny chats with them and their...

The Current Cinema THE PLAGUE by Terrence Rafferty.

The Talk of the Town Zombies by Alex Prud'Homme. Talk story about the Nintendo PowerFest and World Champion ships at the Javits Convention Center. Fourteen year old Jason Orlando sets a world record in the video "Triathlon" consisting of Super Mario Bros., Rad Racer, and Tetris. The festival is touring more than thirty sites in North America, culminating in...

The Talk of the Town Images by Mindy Aloff. Talk story about sculptor Harriet Feigenbaum and her latest work, commemorating the Holocaust, which will sit next to the Appellate Division Courthouse of the State Supreme Court at 25th and Madison. The sculpture includes a replica of Auschwitz which the artist modelled from an aerial photo (she has never been...

Comment Comment, Pt. I by Suzannah Lessard. Comment about the end of the Cold War. The Cold War, which from our perspective has been the dominant narrative of the last half of the century, began with George Kennan's famous 1946 telegram to the State Department outlining the aggressive nature of the government of the Soviet Union at...

A Reporter at Large I-AN OPEN ADOPTION by Lincoln Caplan. REPORTER AT LARGE about an open adoption in which the birth mother & the adopters select each other. In the traditional arrangement the baby is turned over to an adoption agency & the agency decides where to place the child. In early June of 1988 Peggy Bass (pseud.) decided to...

Comment Comment, Pt. II by Gerald Jonas. Comment about the post-season victory of the N.Y. Knicks over the Boston Celtics... It's the morning after. The Knicks, New York's ever-promising, often disappointing team, have gloriously extended their season by upsetting the Celtics in the first round of the National Basketball Association playoffs. Writer goes out early...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Fiction His Final Mother by Reynolds Price. Crawford Langley is twelve but growing up fast. He makes everyone stop calling him by his nickname, Ford, except his father. His mother dies suddenly, and somehow, he feels stronger, not sad. Instead of praying, he turns to Robinson Crusoe. He knows it is harder on his father. That night...

The Theatre ROCKY ROAD by Mimi Kramer.

The Sporting Scene THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM by Roger Angell. THE SPORTING SCENE about the economics of baseball, the owner's 32-day lock-out this spring, the negotiations between players and owners, player's salaries, television revenues from games and how they affect teams, the new Camden Yards Ballpark now under construction for the Baltimore Orioles, the death of Johnny Neun...

Poetry Mr. Luna in the Afternoon by Alberto Rios. He could not say that he prayed...

Poetry More by Elizabeth Macklin. Sidewalks for thirty blocks, more...

Poetry Laertes by Michael Longley. When he found Laertes alone on the tidy terrace, hoeing...