Books by Tony Gibbs.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town Night Life by Natacha Stewart. Talk story in three parts about the progression of a group of friends from a cocktail party in Manhattan to a night club called "Odessa," in Brighton Beach. The group consists of Gregor von Rezzori, whose novel "The Death of My Brother Abel" will be published in English by Viking...

Profiles I-GOVERNORS by Ken Auletta. PROFILE of Mario Cuomo, sworn in as governor of N.Y. on Jan. 1, 1983. He is being touted as one of the Democratic Party's prospects for national office. On issues that interest liberals he takes the correct position. But in his speeches he often refers to God, his Roman Catholicism...

Fiction Buddy by Laura Furman. Louise had lived in Boston for 3 years. She'd been seeing Josh for 14 years. He was a folksinger who was on the road a lot. Louise knew she loved Josh more than he loved her. When Josh left her to marry a young girl he'd gotten pregnant, Louise called...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL MONEY, MONEY, MONEY by Andy Logan. For more than two weeks there has been attention focused on Schools Chancellor Anthony Alvarado, the first Hispanic to be in charge of the nation's largest school system. The revelations about his private dealings are mainly focused on the question of whether there was any connection between large loans made...

The Talk of the Town Ultimate by Charles McGrath. Talk story about the Ultimate Frisbee Team from the Bronx High School of Science, which was practicing at the football field in Central Park. Ultimate Frisbee is a fast game in which each of two seven-man teams attempts to pass a Frisbee the length of a seventy-yard field...

Comment by Garrison Keillor. A friend writes: About five o'clock last Sunday evening, my son burst into the kitchen. He was late for a party -- a sixties party -- and he needed something to wear. We went up to the attic, where I've squirrelled away some boxes of old stuff. The first thing I found...

The Theatre TEARS FOR WILLY LOMAN by Brendan Gill.

Fiction Finnegan Wakes at Yankee Stageum by Kenneth Lash. Opening day of the baseball season at Yankee Stadium told in the style of "Finnegan's Wake" by James Joyce. It is written in incomprehensible Irish dialect...

Poetry At North Farm by John Ashbery. Somewhere someone is travelling furiously toward you, That the dish of mile...

Poetry Far West Once by Robert Penn Warren. Aloud, I said, with a slight stir of heart...