Fiction Secrets of Our Pyramid by Bruce McCall. Story about Jim and Mimi Arbuthnot who have built an authentic Egyptian pyramid named "Cheopstyx" on the west bank of the Mississippi in Arkansas. They use it as a weekend retreat and got the idea from Jim's lifelong fascination with the Camel cigarette package and a stopover in Egypt in...

A Reporter at Large THE CHRISTIAN ENCLAVE by Milton Viorst. REPORTER AT LARGE about Lebanon, especially the country's powerful Maronite Christian community. It was thought this was a good time to go since the 6-year term of Pres. Amin Gemayel was to expire in Sept. & Lebanon might be expected to embark on a new search for a settlement...

Books by George Steiner.

Fiction The Good Man by Robert Boswell. Story about a man, Long, who is an alcoholic. He meets his wife Andrea when he falls down the stairs and she runs out into the hall to see what has happened. Ten years later she leaves him, taking their two children. He worked as a reporter for the Chicago...

The Current Cinema SECRET SHARERS by Terrence Rafferty.

The Talk of the Town Moment by Mark Singer. Talk story about a man who is in a car accident in the Bronx. He says that there are moments that make life in New York worth living, but these do not include his bike being stolen, his car being wrecked after it was broken into, or this accident, which...

The Talk of the Town Party of Canines by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about a party for dogs given by the Corner Bookstore at 93 and Madison. Writer went with dog Willy, Willy's date Carol, and Jock. Although writer is normally skeptical about things like parties for dogs, he thought this would be O.K. because it was given by a bookstore...

Comment by Michael J. Arlen. Comment about Hurricane Gilbert and Brownsville, Texas... On the day that Hurricane Gilbert was supposed to smack into the South Texas coast, the not very large town of Brownsville, Texas, which happens to be right on the Gulf & also right next to the Mexican border, was pretty well boarded...

The Theatre WINNERS by Edith Oliver.

The Control of Nature II-LOS ANGELES AGAINST THE MOUNTAINS by John McPhee. THE CONTROL OF NATURE about debris flows in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles... For many decades in Los Angeles there was a moat of orange groves between the built-up metropolis and the mountain front. The debris flows would come down the mountain into the citrus orchards and...

Casual Dreaming About the Dead by Katha Pollitt. You'd think they'd just been out for a casual stroll...

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

Poetry During Rain and Wind by Philip Levine. Outside the rain batters...