The Talk of the Town Remedies by Pope Brock. Talk story about homeopathic veterinarian Dr. C.W. (Pete) Schaubhut, who works in the East Village Veterinarian, on Eldridge Street. Of 3 or 4 thousand practicing homeopaths in this country, perhaps 75 are veterinarians, and Dr. Schaubhut told us that as far as he knows he is the only homeopathic vet...

The Current Cinema The 54th by Pauline Kael.

Books by John Updike.

The Talk of the Town The Village Market Party by Jane Stern. Talk story about the Village Market of Wilton, CT, and the party celebrating its change of ownership. Over six hundred people attended the event, as the Piersalls turned the store over to Peter and Cathie Keating. Th store is small and personal and serves as a sort of town center...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Last Frontier by Susan Orlean. Talk story about Alan Abel who recently masterminded a fake $35 million lottery winner. Abel is an accomplished pranksster and would like to take credit for the UFO sighting in Russia last summer. He has had his own obituary published in the 'New York Times,' passed off as legitimate several...

Comment by Suzannah Lessard. Comment about the declining role of the US in international affairs. Not since before the Second World War has the US been as peripheral on the world stage as it is now. A major drama is taking place in the USSR & in Europe, and we are not involved in...

Fiction The Winter Bazaar by Peter Cameron. Walter Doyle, president of a bank in rural Indiana, drives out to a farm house recently willed to the Methodist Church by the late Bertha Knox, which his bank has foreclosed on. (The church sold it.) Enchanted by the quiet, sunlit rooms, he beds down for a nap. Meanwhile, Topsy...

Correction Corrections by Calvin Trillin. This one page piece is a series of mock newspaper corrections appearing over a space of six months. All of the corrections have to do with misstatements made about Ralph W. Murtaugh, Jr. In the first, he is confused with actress Hilary Murtaugh; the second corrects a misquotation of his...

Annals of Politics THE JOHNSON YEARS: THE OLD AND THE NEW IV-THE STEALING by Robert A. Caro. ANNALS OF POLITICS about how Lyndon Johnson won the 1948 Senate race by stealing votes. Six days after the election he was declared the winner by 37 votes. This was after numerous revisions in the figures. A key factor was the discovery of 200 new votes from "the Valley", an...

Poetry Yes by Tess Gallagher. Now we are like that flat cone of sand...

Poetry Salt by David Woo. The sun is a Tudor arch sustaining the sky...

Poetry The Map by Alvaro Mutis. A scarlet horseman...