Annals of Law THE ASBESTOS INDUSTRY ON TRIAL II-DISCOVERY by Paul Brodeur. ANNALS OF LAW about the health hazards of asbestos and lawsuits filed on behalf of ill workers...

Books by John Updike.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Second part of a two part Comment. While in Washington the next war was a "commonplace" topic of discussion, in the country at large people were still trying to come to terms with the last war - the one in Vietnam. Writer visited the new monument to the war dead in...

Fiction Jump or Dive by Peter Cameron. Evan and his parents had driven down from Oregon to visit his Uncle Walter, who lived in Arizona with his lover Jason. Evan had just finished ninth grade. On Wednesday Jason drove Evan and his mother to a dinosaur museum. Evan thought his mother came because she didn't want him...

The Current Cinema EXTREMES by Pauline Kael.

Comment Comment-Part 1 & 2 by William McKibben. Comment about U.S. intervention in Nicaragua after reading 2 New York Times articles on U.S. military policy there. The Times quotes"an intelligence official whose opinions have been solicited by members of the National Security Council"as saying that an American invasion of Nicaragua would be as easy as"falling...

Books by John Updike.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Fiction Settling An Old Score by Veronica Geng. Story starts with quote by John Rockwell who quotes a bitter remark made by Shaw on Brahms' Requiem. Author tells about biting criticisms made by Shaw. Writer imagines that by 1940, Shaw's reputation was so secure that Lyndon Baines Johnson was the only English speaking person capable of cutting him...

The Talk of the Town Resume by Susan Lardner. Talk story about Janet. She got a phone call; she was offered a fellowship to the Aspen Institute for the Humanities, for a seminar in which they discuss Dostoyevski, Aristotle, and Sophocles. It's called the Aspen Institute for Corporate Executives. The man told her she needs a resume, but she...

Poetry The Borrowed Ones by Tess Gallagher. We, the old children, are now old again...

Poetry Starling by Richard Kenney. Heard its drumming first downstairs...