Fiction Are You Happy? by Edward Koren. A cartoon story in nine panels. A troubled couple ask each other questions such as: "What are you like when you're angry?" "Why can't you accept intimacy?" "Do I satisfy your needs?" The last one says: "Do you think you should be getting professional help...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

The Current Cinema UNLOCKED by Penelope Gilliatt.

The Talk of the Town Preservation by Brendan Gill. Talk story about exhibit of 600 American Indian artifacts, drawn from the collection of the Museum of the American Indian, at the old U.S. Custom House at Bowling Green. The exhibit displays masks, baskets, toys, ceremonial robes and the like. Tells about the hopes of preservationists that the Congress will...

The Talk of the Town Luxury by Mark Singer. Talk story about Larry's Rent-A-Wreck in Shrewsbury, N.J. Larry Cohen, the proprietor and franchiser of the business operates on license from Bob's Rent-A-Wreck, Inc. of Raleigh, N. Carolina. He is an associate of Bob Munnerlyn, proprietor and franchiser of Bob's Rent-A-Wreck, and works the...

Fiction As I Was Going To St. Ives I Met A Man With Seventeen Wives by S. J. Perelman. Short story in which writer creates his own dramatic verwion of an article he read in the "Times" headlined "117 year-old Malaysian Guilty in 'Living out of Wedlock' Case." The play version makes the man with many wives a Bengali...

Books by John Updike.

Fiction The Whistling Bird by Jean Rhys. The writer's cousin, Liliane, moved to London from the West Indies after her family had died within a short span of time. When her father died suddenly, his widow, Evelina, and three children, Don, Monica and Liliane were obliged to give up their estate in Dominica because he left them...

Comment by Jamaica Kincaid. A letter from a young woman we know: When I decided that the place I was living in was too small for me, I told everyone that I was moving.. I didn't know where I would move to.. I said it to my landlord.. Weeks later, he called and when...

Books by John Updike.

The Talk of the Town Many Tanks by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the Rosenwach Tank Company of 40-25 Crescent St., Long Island City, which makes and installs rooftop water tanks. The company, 82 years old, is responsible for over half the tanks on the New York skyline. Wallace Rosenwach, the current president, tells the writer about his father and...

A Reporter at Large I-SENATOR by Elizabeth Drew. REPORTER AT LARGE about John C. Culver, a 46-year-old Democratic senator from Iowa, who is in his first term. He has already established a reputation as one of the most effective members of the Senate. Writer watches him at work and tells about it. Culver is an unusual...

Poetry Let Me Begin Again by Philip Levine. Let me begin again as a speck...

Poetry Greystone Cottage by Richard Hugo. Some days the tick of two protestant clocks...