The Current Cinema by Michael Sragow.

Comment by Guy Trebay. Comment about acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Writer tells about several AIDS victims, including the brother of a friend, another friend named Adrian, who writer first wrote about last spring, and about how the disease affected them. The first victim, known as Lisa's brother, had brain lesions which were making it...

The Talk of the Town Touchstone by Harvey Sachs. Talk story about a lecture on Mozart given by Saul Bellow at the Teatro Verdi in Florence, Italy. Bellow was invited to give the lecture, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the composer's death, at the invitation of Bruno Bartoletti. Bartoletti is artistic director of Florence's Teatro Communale, and principal conductor...

The Talk of the Town Revival by James Lardner. Talk story about Bruce Goldstein, director of Film Forum 2, on West Houston St., and the current renaissance of movie revival houses. Though the Biograph closed a couple of months ago, the Eighth Street Playhouse has been converted into a revival house, and similar plans have been announced for Loew's...

The Talk of the Town Small-Town Life by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about a dog emporium called Canine Styles, located on the west side of Lexington Ave., between 63rd & 64th Streets, which has been there since 1959. Some people used to call it Ursula's, but now everyone calls it Canine Styles. A dog emporium is not a pet shop...

Fiction A State of Affairs by Mavis Gallant. M. Maciek Wroblewski, a Polish gentile survivor of Dachau, lives in Paris with his senile wife, Magda Zaleska, and their schnauzer, Hector. After the war, he taught French, and she taught music and algebra, at a Polish high school in Paris, which no longer exists. They receive letters from a...

Annals of Place THE PALACE AND THE CITY by Fernanda Eberstadt. ANNALS OF PLACE about Palermo, Sicily, especially Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, 57, who lives with his extended family & various tenants in a palace on the Via Butera. Part of the palace used to belong to Gioacchino's cousin & adoptive father, Giuseppe Tomasi (1896-1957), the last Prince of Lampedusa, who wrote...

Popular Music by Elizabeth Wurtzel.

The Theatre MORE WEIGHT by Mimi Kramer.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Books The Fidelity of Things by Edward Hirsch.

Poetry Reading the Sunday Comics, Summer, 1963 by Nicholas Christopher. The harried, hysterical housewife...

Poetry A Dog Lover's Confession by Mona Van Duyn. Perfect love I have known...

Poetry Funeral Home by Marianne Burke. Let us think of you spared, carried gently...