Comment by Elizabeth Wurtzel. Comment about driving to the march for reproductive freedom in Washington, D.C. After seeing "Thelma & Louise" the writer and her friends Caitlin and Melissa decided it was important for them to drive themselves down to Washington. But none of them had much driving experience, so they tried to find...

The Talk of the Town Junket by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about painting the Hell Gate Bridge... Writer boarded a train with Senator Moynihan and Mayor Dinkins. The Senator--so the reporters had all been told, by various briefers--had arranged to get big federal bucks to paint the bridge, and today he and the Mayor would honor the...

The Talk of the Town Judy Heaven by Nancy Franklin. Talk story about an exhibit of Judy Garland costumes and memorabilia at the Amsterdam Gallery of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The show, organized by Garland collectors John Fricke and Michael Benson, celebrates what would have been Garland's 70th birthday, on June 10th of this year...

Fiction Blind Date by Huguette Martel. Black and white cartoon spread about a blind date with Louis XIV...

Fiction A Wilderness Station by Alice Munro. A series of letters and one article (dated 1852-1969) about the settling of northern Canada, with Annie Herron at their center. The first letter, a reply to Simon Herron, gives the name of a marriageable girl from an orphanage, Annie McKillop. The next item (1907) is a recollection for a...

A Reporter at Large SOCIALISM OR DEATH by John Newhouse. A REPORTER AT LARGE about Cuba, the Cuban missle crisis, and the Cuban-American political community. Last September, Mikhail Gorbachev, then the President of the Soviet Union, and Secretary of State James Baker announced in Moscow that the Soviet aid that had literally sustained Cuba was being cut off. Predictably...

The Theatre REUNION by Edith Oliver.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Dancing by Alastair Macaulay.

The Sky Line 1932 by Brendan Gill.

Books by Lloyd Rose.

The Film File Thunderheart by Michael Sragow. This murder mystery, set on a Sioux reservation, teams Sam Shepard, as an F.B.I. agent who speaks with forked tongue, and Val Kilmer, as an agent who thinks with forked mind. Kilmer’s character is one-quarter Sioux, which apparently affects the right side of his brain—he gets mystical flashes and visions....

Poetry The Fragility of Heavy Machinery by Caroline Fraser. They don't love...

Poetry Cook's Tour by Robert Mazzocco. It is just as well you don't like it here...

Poetry Potato Eaters by Leonard Nathan. Sometimes the naked taste of potato...