Comment Comment (Part 2) by William McKibben. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped precipitously one day recently. News that unemployment had gone down led some trade-s to think that interest rates might go up, and the average fell 39.10 points. The day after the Dow fell, writer was skiing in Vermont. On his last trip up...

The Theatre NIL NISI BONUM by Brendan Gill.

A Reporter at Large II-OFFSHORE by A. Alvarez. REPORTER AT LARGE about North Sea oil. In Mar., 1983 writer spent a week on Treasure Finder, a floating accomodation platform in Shell's Brent field. He tells about John MacDonald, the meteorological officer & the only American aboard and about the two men who run the administration office. He flew...

Books by Whitney Balliett.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. From time to time, well-meaning people, using the most compellingly rational arguments, urge us all to subordinate our love for the particular country we live in to a love for all mankind. They note that an emotion born of the impulse to protect our own country has in our...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Hardware by William McKibben. Talk story about Barson Hardware, a store which replaced a computer store on The New Yorker's block... Barson Hardware is the name, after the man who founded the operation many years ago-Barney Rubin, his daughter-and now shop co-owner-Anita, his wife Rose, and his son. It's been...

The Current Cinema LASSO AND PEASHOOTER by Pauline Kael.

The Talk of the Town Dian Fossey by Katherine Bouton. Talk story about Dian Fossey, a gorilla expert who was murdered at her camp in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda. Her obituary in the "Times" said that she had been killed by "unknown assailants," but it is likely that they were the poachers she had fought for so many years...

The Talk of the Town Reception by Emily Hahn. Talk story about a reception given at the Asia Society for to view "Akbar's India: Art from the Mughal City of Victory," (Fatehpur Sikri.) now on display at the society. More than 300 people crowded the reception rooms & they were unusually pretty people. Many of the ladies wore saris...

Conversations Notes on My Conversations by Polly Frost. Conversation has been Lebowitz's lifetime work. The writing of her books, like the plastering of a wall for a fresco, is best viewed as a prepatory phase... Instead of bemoaning Lebowitz's failure to publish, one might envy her progress. Her work is now custom-tailored, her clientele is elite...

Fiction The Auction by Berry Morgan. When Dana Ingles woke up he saw notices of the auction outside the farm's tenant house. He had lived with his 9-year-old daughter, Laura, for a winter and two summers on this farm in northern Virginia. When the farmer who owned the place died, the police asked him...

Poetry Nothing But Snow by Mark Wolynn. How can I translate the pine...

Poetry In the End We Are All Light by Lizbeth Rosenberg. I love how old men carry purses for their wives...