Fiction The Burning House by Ann Beattie. Amy does dishes after a dinner party with her husband's gay half brother, who is smoking a joint. She feels at a distance from her husband. He sits in the living room with an art gallery owner friend of his, laughing. Their son, 6, is staying with a friend but...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

U. S. Journal CONTROL by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: FAIRHOPE, ALA. about Claire Oaks, city librarian since 1977, who clashed with Mayor James Nix and city council for a variety of reasons, none too clearly defined. Gives history of Fairhope, originally founded as a utopian community by E.B. Gaston in 1894. It has a reputation as a...

On and Off the Avenue Feminine Fashions by Kennedy Fraser.

A Reporter at Large The Great and Terrible Wilderness-I by Burton Bernstein. REPORTER AT LARGE about the writer's second trip in the Sinai with guide Dr. Clinton Bailey. Their first journey was through the northeast quadrant of the peninsula; this one was to the southern and central Sinai - at least 5 days in the most rugged wilderness. Just before entering the wilderness...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. The number of people in Iran killed by the newly installed authorities reached a total of 256. Ostensibly the govt. is run by Prime Minister, Mehdi Bazargan, but he is in charge on paper only and has "protested" actions taken in the name of his govt. Real power, according to...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Fiction Wasps' Nests by John Rolfe Gardiner. Avery and Aileen Deal live in a rural town and have a pre-school age son named Leon. They are in debt, and Avery's placid character suggests that this will always be their lot. Avery works as a farm hand. His brother, Thurman Deal, is a notorious ex-convict. The...

The Current Cinema FLYING HIGH by Brendan Gill.

Profiles THE GIRL IN THE BLACK HELMET by Kenneth Tynan. PROFILE of film star Louise Brooks, 73. She has lived in virtual isolation in Rochester, N.Y. since 1956. She made only 24 films, in a movie career that began in 1925 and ended, with enigmatic suddenness, in 1938. Two of them were masterpieces: "Pandora's Box" and "The Diary of a...

The Talk of the Town Country Lawyer by Michael J. Arlen. Talk story about Gerry Spence, the Wyoming lawyer who, as chief trial attorney for the family of Karen Silkwood, recently obtained a judgment of ten and one half million dollars from the Kerr-McGee Corporation, where she was employed as a lab technician. Writer interviews Spence in his hotel room...

The Talk of the Town Delegation by Jonathan Schell. Talk story about a delegation of twelve women leaders from the People's Republic of China, who visited The First Women's Bank, while on a visit to the U.S., sponsored by the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Names the women involved. The president of the bank gave them a...

The Theatre FAMILY TYRANNIES by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Ghost by James Stevenson. Talk story about neon signs, perhaps 40 years old and in the old style of neon, on the Tango Palace on the second floor of a building in Times Square. The building is on the west side of Bdwy. at 48th Street. (Gives illustration of two of the signs: GIRLS...

Poetry Return, Starting Out by Daniel Halpern. There it is, the jagged sprawl of the familiar...

Poetry Papeete by Robert Mazzocco. When you walk...