Concert Records / Popular Music by Winthrop Sargeant.

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Books by Naomi Bliven.

Fiction Bobby's Room by Douglas Dunn. In 1954, when Henry Pollack was twelve years old, he and his parents left Glasgow on a motoring holiday. They stayed at a small inn called Netherbank, run by Mr. and Mrs. Bawden. The Pollacks left Henry with Mrs. Bawden most of the vacation, while they went out. Two years...

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

A Reporter at Large A DISAGREEMENT IN BAILEYVILLE by Frances FitzGerald. REPORTER AT LARGE about book-banning in school libraries. At stake is the principle of local control over education versus student rights under the First Amendment. Writer discusses, principally, a case involving removal of a book ("365 Days", by Dr. Ronald J. Glasser), from the Woodland High School library in...

The Talk of the Town A Different Time by Natacha Stewart. Two-part talk story about "La Revue Blanche" and the exhibition concerned with it, which was at the Wildenstein Gallery until the end of the year. "La Revue Blanche" was an art and literary magazine published in Paris between 1891 and 1903 by three brothers: Alfred, Thadee, and Alexander Natanson...

The Theatre TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES by Brendan Gill.

Comment by James Lardner. Writer is in Times Square on New Year's Eve, contemplating the events of the past year, and thinking about making resolutions for the new one. Noticing all of the Japanese names on the surrounding signs, writer thinks about a resolution to "buy American." Then, deciding that it would be too...

Comment by William McKibben. Comment on diplomacy and the Reagan Administration's relations with Nicaragua. Writer describes the reactions of the losers at the Academy Awards ceremonies, and likens them to the reactions of the White House officials to Jesse Jackson's freeing of the Navy flier captured by the Syrians. Worse for the Administration than...

The Talk of the Town Incident at the Thalia by William Edgett Smith. Talk story in which the writer goes to the Thalia Theatre, on West Ninety-fifth Street, for the opening of the Thalia's Zatoichi retrospective, featuring eleven films starring Shintaro Katsu in his role as the blind super-samurai Zatoichi. The first film is "The Devil's Temple," which is not a...

Poetry Crossing Central Park in Late Winter by Charles Siebert. In high relief against the outer wall...

Poetry With Two Fingers of Cheap Red by Charles Simic. Geese know...

Poetry Elizabethan Love by William Steig. Seven drawings with captions of poetry. Three of the poems are anonymous...

Poetry What the Dead Know by Robert Polito. Air here is like the water Of an aquarian that's been lived...