Fiction Loose Leaves by Larry Tritten. Some Pages Left Out of the New Edition of the Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald.) A parody of the style and themes of Fitzgerald in the form of brief, notebook-like entries. The notes are under headings: Descriptions, Atmosphere, Titles, Names, Ideas, Etc. Examples: "Age offered no release. She still...

A Reporter at Large THE SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS II-A RESIDUE OF DOUBT by Henry S. F. Cooper. REPORTER AT LARGE about findings after Viking 2 landed on Mars on Aug. 7, 1976. Three biologists, Vance Oyama Norman Horowitz and Gilbert V. Levin, continued the work they started after Viking 1 landed - experiments to determine whether samples of Martian soil revealed life. Tells about their conflicting results. The...

Letter from Israel by Joseph Kraft. Tells about the belief throughout Israel that the U.S. was interpreting the Camp David accords to mean that Israel would have to abandon the West Bank at the end of a 5-year period. This came out after Assistant Secretary of State Harold Saunders went to Jordan to respond to...

Fiction Country Noises by Saul Steinberg. Drawings of various noises heard in a country house, such as "Phone rings", "Furnace", "Refrigerator", "Raccoon?", "Rain on roof", etc...

The Talk of the Town Tom, Dick and (No) Harry by Rogers E. M. Whitaker. Talk story about the Smothers Brothers - Tom and Dick - now playing the leads in "I Love My Wife", a musical comedy. They took the parts last Sept. after the show had already been on Broadway for more than a year. They converted what had been smirk into true comedy. Writer...

The Talk of the Town The World of Letters by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about information and advice given to aspiring fiction writers at the Overseas Press Club by several fiction editors from leading publishers. Lists the editors and publishing houses and quotes some of their advice...

The Talk of the Town Stoneyard by Mark Singer. Talk story about James Bambridge's work to resume construction on the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 113th St. and Amsterdam. Bambridge is supervising plans for a working stoneyard in a playing field north of the church. Blocks of Indiana limestone will be cut into workable slabs carved...

The Current Cinema STEAM ENGINES by Pauline Kael.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Few events in recent times have arrived more unexpectedly than the revolution now in progress in Iran. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union were unprepared for this revolution against modernization and for traditional ways. Writer quotes Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard commencement speech on the blindness of superiority in the belief...

The Theatre NO SURPRISES by Brendan Gill.

Fiction Baum, Gabriel, 1935-( ) by Mavis Gallant. Gabriel, a German Jewish refugee, lives in Paris and works as an actor. His parents disappeared in 1943 in Marseilles when he was 8. At 25, he meets his only surviving relative, an uncle who lives in S. America. The uncle refuses to make Gabriel his heir as he has...

Poetry Saintly Hermits In a Landscape by Richard Howard. There are, by my tally, just a hundred...

Poetry The Patient by Alex Stevens. One day he said to himself, I will let nothing...

Poetry Heaven and Earth by Jon Swan. It was a circle when I heard it first...