Books by John Updike.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Fiction Charlie-O by Cynthia Kadohata. When the narrator, Olivia, was 15, she was almost as tall as the man she always thought of as her father, Charlie Osaka, who everyone called Charlie-O. He was 5'3". Her mother was 8 months pregnant with Olivia, another man's child, when Charlie-O married her. Soon, they...

The Current Cinema QUESTS FOR AMERICA by Pauline Kael.

Profiles A GIRL OF THE ZEITGEIST-I by Janet Malcolm. PROFILE of Ingrid Sischy, the current editor of "Artforum" magazine. Ingrid Sischy became editor of "Artforum" at the age of 27. She was offered the job by Anthony Korner, a 40-year-old English former banker & Amy Baker Sandback, a 38-year-old art historian & art-book publisher...

Jazz New American Songs by Whitney Balliett. Entire column on the life and work of Dave Frishberg, a song-writer, a pianist, and a singer...

The Talk of the Town Going, Getting Through the Door, Being There by Mark Singer. Talk story (with an illustration by Edward Koren)about Cole Palen, and his 1929 Davis monoplane, which he took to the Brooklyn Museum of Art for their exhibit, "The Machine Age in America: 1918-1941." Writer met with Palen in a parking lot by the Hudson River one day last week...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. When the Polish government released more than 200 political prisoners recently, the opposition movement had to figure out how to respond. 2 weeks later, it gave its answer. Lech Walesa, the head of the outlawed Solidarity trade-union federation & Zbigniew Bujak, the leader of its Warsaw branch, announced, in...

Fiction Uncle Aron by Sergei Dovlatov. Writer tells about his aunt's husband, Aron, whose history zigzags like the history of the Soviet Union. He was a Gymnasium student, then a radical university student, then a Red Army soldier. Then, he joined the White Poles fighting the Red Army. Then he became a Red Army man again...

The Talk of the Town The Kids by William McKibben. First part of a two-part talk story. This part is about the Brooklyn Children's Museum... Writer went in for a preview look at "Sounds Around," an exhibit dealing with all kinds of things people hear. Moses Josiah, a leading gospel-musical sawyer, was playing & pleased-looking staff people...

Poetry Long Sorrowing by A. R. Ammons. My path's so...

Poetry Another Autumn, and by Sydney Lea. again the trees' loud story...