Cover artist: Arthur Getz
Publication Date: July 4, 1983
Page Count: 92 pages
In this issue:Fiction One More Interview by John Updike. The actor's tour takes him to a Midwestern city fifteen miles from the small town where he grew up, and an interviewer suggests that they visit the home town together. The actor's agent tells him he could use the publicity; so he reluctantly agrees to the interview. He meets the... Fiction Lexington Avenue by Saul Steinberg. Seven drawings captioned as follows: Gramercy Park; At 28th Street (Approx.); Chrysler Building at 42nd Street; Overpass at 58th Street; 67th Street; The Y, Excavations, and Waterfall at 92nd Street... Comment by Jonathan Schell. We Americans seem to be living in a repetitious, derivative time . . . The debate about American intervention in Latin America bears a strong resemblance to the debate about Vietnam in the 1960s. We are once again told that if we don't stop "Communism" in one small country it will spread like... Letter from Saudi Arabia by Joseph Kraft. Writer arrived in Saudi Arabia at Jidda, the port city on the Red Sea. It is so spick and span that it must be the cleanest city in the Third World. The oil boom brought accelerated modernization and rapid growth to the main cities of the country. The Bedouin nomads... The Talk of the Town Newfoundland by William McKibben. Mentioned, though not by her full name but merely as Sheila, in talk story about the celebration of Newfoundland's 400th anniversary. The writer was invited by the Canadian government and took along his friend Sheila as an adviser because she grew up in Newfoundland. Tells what she told him about... A Reporter at Large II-THE EDGE OF THE FOREST by Anthony Bailey. REPORTER AT LARGE about the writer's continuing trip along the border between East and West Germany, ending near Czechoslovakia. He started in East Berlin, describing Unter den Linden avenue and talking to several G.D.R. citizens about the good and bad aspects of the East. Most East Germans seemed fairly stoic... Dancing Paging Mr. Astaire by Arlene Croce. Books The Making of a Philosophe by Naomi Bliven. The Talk of the Town Conference by Gerald Jonas. Talk story about a conference called "Timing and Time Perception", sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, held at the Hotel Barbizon Plaza... Poetry Fourth by Richard Kenney. Time out of mind- false... Poetry Midsummer by Derek Walcott. Something primal in our spine makes the child swing... | 
