The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Calvin Tomkins.

The Sporting Scene TIGER, TIGER by Roger Angell. THE SPORTING SCENE about the 1984 baseball season, the playoffs, and the World Series, won by the Detroit Tigers. In the American League playoffs the Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals, and in the National League the San Diego Padres beat the Chicago Cubs. Some fans say it wasn't a...

The Talk of the Town Fo on Broadway by Lawrence Weschler. Talk story about attending six different Broadway shows in two hours with the playwright Dario Fo and his wife and frequent collaborator, Franca Rame. Writer went with the two Italians and the producer Bernard Gersten, who is producing Fo's "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" on Broadway. Tells how Fo and...

Fiction Eddie Mac by John McGahern. Story takes place in Ireland. 1924 was the great year of St. Michael's football, and it was that summer that Annie May Moran came to work for the Protestant Kirkwoods. Eddie Mac was the star of the team. He worked for the Kirkwoods and lived in the herdsman's cottage. Old...

A Political Journal by Elizabeth Drew. After the President's landslide victory writer analyzes the presidential campaign. Reagan carried 49 states (losing only Walter Mondale's home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia), and defeated Mondale 59% to 41%. The popular vote margin was the second-highest in history and the electoral vote 525 to 13...

Comment by William Hamilton. A man we know writes that his friend Richard Brautigan, the writer, who recently died, had a penchant for absurdity akin to the jolly-serious outrages cooked up by the young Dadaists of Paris in the early nineteen-twenties. He was a tall, baroquely mustachioed man with a strangely swanlake...

Fiction Horoscopes of the New Zodiac by Jack Ziegler. Twelve drawings representing signs of the zodiac, each with a caption telling of future events, all of which are calamitous. Most of them also represent people in various professions...

The Theatre BELASCO FIASCO by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Eagles by Ian Frazier. Talk story about the bald eagles that gather in Glacier National Park in Montana. Every fall in recent years the densest concentration of bald eagles in the lower forty-eight states has been found there, by the banks of McDonald Creek near the village of Apgar. Anywhere from thirty thousand...

Poetry Rose by Richard Kenney. Glass flowers in a long vitrine/whose labels scan suppose/implicit in the planet's...

Poetry Along the Banks of the Don by Alan Feldman. Life seems so simpleminded without God. The Don flows...