Profiles THE MAN by Mary D. Kierstead. PROFILE of James Houston who is an artist, writer, and administrator. He is Canadian, born in Toronto in 1921. His father was a travelling salesman who was fascinated by Indians. When Houston was 8 he sold his first drawing. His art was encouraged at school and he eventually enrolled in...

Fiction I Read My Nephew Stories by Ethan Mordden. Story about a man's annual visit to his older brother Ken's summer home on Martha's Vineyard. Narrator is a writer from Manhattan. He often tells Ken's 6-year-old son Toby stories, and is the only one who can easily put him to bed. Narrator is always observant and curious...

Books by Naomi Bliven.

A Reporter at Large SKIRMISH by Lawrence Weschler. REPORTER AT LARGE about Poland. On May 10th, a 16-day nationwide series of rolling strike actions by Polish workers came to an end as a few hundred Gdansk shipyard employees-the remnants of a band that at one point numbered several thousand-abandoned their occupation of the Lenin Shipyard...

Comment by James Lardner. Comment about the greenhouse effect... For a long time, there has been talk--mostly among academics, environmentalists, & other non-policymaking types--about the greenhouse effect: the warming of the earth as a result of gases pumped into the atmosphere. It is all but impossible we gather, to show that...

Annals of Sport IN PRIME TIME by Bill Barich. ANNALS OF SPORT about the Mike Tyson-Michael Spinks heavyweight championship boxing match at the Atlantic City Convention Center... In Atlantic City, there may have been nobody as scared of Tyson(or, at least, of Tyson possessed)as Michael Spinks, who spoke openly of his distaste for boxing and admitted...

The Talk of the Town Devotion by Katy Butler. Talk story about Forty Hours Devotion offered by parishioners of the church of the Most Holy Redeemer in the Castro district of San Francisco, where prayers are being offered for an end to the AIDS epidemic. The church has almost 600 new members, who joined after its pastor, Tony McGuire...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL TRANSGRESSIONS by Andy Logan. Mayor Edward Koch likes to point out that there are 175 distinct ethnic & religious groups in this city. It's wise to keep not only a sharp ear out but a sharp eye on the ethnic political world, because it's constantly changing. One of the setbacks to Koch's poltical fortunes...

The Talk of the Town Tortoises by Richard Brookhiser. Talk story about tortoises. Writer first noticed them in the window of a pet store on Lexington Ave., and became very interested in them. He went to several pet stores in Manhattan looking at their tortoises, and ended up at a store, N.Y. Reptilia, in Flushing. Reptilia carries all sorts...

The Talk of the Town Floating Cinema by Alex Prud'Homme. Talk story about the Floating Cinema which looks like a barge with a movie screen and projection house on it, moored about 80' offshore. It will be moored at 6 New York City sites this summer, showing 9 feature-length movies. Writer heard about it from the NYC Department of...

Poetry Gravy by Raymond Carver. No other word will do. For that's what it was. Gravy...

Poetry Summer 1983 by Mary Jo Salter. None of us remembers these, the days...