Fiction Marigolds by Cynthia Kadohata. This story is about a Japanese family. Narrator recalls being 11 and growing up with her 3 younger brothers in California, where her parents worked at various farms. The life was difficult, and they travelled most of the time. When her grandmother died in Casa Maria, she was buried in...

Books by Alistair Cooke.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Overload, Pt. II by Mark Singer. Second part of two-part talk story about David Hayes, a heavily-tattooed astrologer... Clayton Patterson has made a videotape of David Hayes' tattoos. Also featured on this videotape is Andrew Sistrand, a tattoo artist in whose hands Mr. Hayes has placed his entire body. Mr. Hayes has an eagle...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. In an age of pseudo events, the State of the Union Message, it seems to us, is always a real event. Perhaps the reason is that it is the one speech by the President that occurs every year at the same time & in the same place, with the same...

The Sporting Scene I-RACING THROUGH PARADISE by William F. Buckley. THE SPORTING SCENE about spending the month of June, 1985 sailing across the Pacific. Writer chartered the 71-foot ketch Sealestial from his old friend Dr. Michael Papo. He knew the boat from previous voyages on it. The skipper was Allan Jouning (from New Zealand), with whom the writer had...

Fiction Geometry by Judy Troy. A week after Denny Long left the narrator, Beverly, to move in with another woman and her 2 children, her brother-in-law called her at Toys "R" Us to say that her sister was in labor at South Miami Hospital. Beverly went to the hospital, where she waited with...

The Talk of the Town Overloaded, Pt. I by Mark Singer. First part of two-part talk story about astrologer David Hayes. "There are 3, professions you can't make money at--poet, classical composer & astrologer," David Hayes said the other morning. He's the only astrologer who regularly advertises in the"Yale Alumni Magazine." He has an undergraduate degree from Yale...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL STORMY WEATHER by Andy Logan. On Jan. 23 of this year, Mayor Edward Koch flew out of Kennedy Airport accompanied by 5 friends, his press secretary, his chief of staff, 3 representatives of the local media & one of the 3 bodyguards who were making the trip... He was off on what his office called...

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

The Current Cinema KILLER-DILLER by Pauline Kael.

The Talk of the Town Adoption by Mark Singer. Talk story about joining 31 students in Michael Lugano's sixth grade class at P.S. 105 (which is in the Bronx) at Wave Hill Learning Center. Con Edison, which is one of the utilities operating power plants that across the years have killed significant numbers of striped bass in the Hudson...

Poetry What the End is For by Jorie Graham. A boy just like you took me out to see them...

Poetry Late Marsh by Fred Dings. We must repeat the lessons of the world from Ptolemaic to Copernican...

Poetry Nightscape With Dove's by William Collins Watterson. New snow in the clearing...