Fiction True Loves by Mark Strand. A man in his mid-forties, who has been married 5 times, tells about the 6 times he has been in love. (The women he describes are not the women he married.) The first time he fell in love was in Machu Picchu. She was an English tourist and they...

The Current Cinema CANDYLAND by Roger Angell.

The Talk of the Town Fair by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about this year's Antiquarian Book Fair, an assemblage of a hundred-odd dealers. It was housed in the downstairs ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel, and lasted three days...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Comment by John Newhouse. Iran's revolution surges across a series of emotional peaks, scattering effects that we comprehend dimly. Our concern is the hostages, but we sense that the events surrounding their seizure have for the time being taken charge of history. Tells about the political effects Pres. Carter's political fortunes are for the...

Books by George Steiner.

The Theatre LOVE IN THE DARK by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Sea-Warp by Alastair Reid. Talk story about a visit to the four-masted bark Peking, which formerly ran cargo between Europe and the coast of Chile, and which is now owned by the South Street Seaport Museum and is moored at Pier 15 in the East River. A movie was shown, filmed aboard the...

Profiles ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES by James Stevenson. PROFILE of Patrick Oliphant, 44, the political cartoonist for the Washington "Star". He's had a good relationship with the editors - Jim Bellows, when he came in 1975 and now Hurray Gart. He has published more than 8,000 political cartoons over 24 years, won a Pulitzer Prize and a number of...

Fiction Snow by Alice Adams. One man and three women are cross-country skiing in the Sierra Mts. in Calif. They are Graham, a San Francisco architect; his girlfriend Carol, a florist; his daughter Susannah and her lover Rose, who both have film-related jobs. Graham is cursing himself for having brought all these women...

Around City Hall Intervention by Andy Logan. Highlights of 1979. Events showing New York as an international center are considered first. The seizing of American hostages in Iran was officially denounced by the Soviet Union but there were two incidents disconcerting to them. One was the 3-day international crisis last Aug. at Kennedy Airport when a...

Poetry Auto-Da-Fe by Robert Penn Warren. Beautiful the intricacy of body...

Poetry Toronto Means the Meeting Place by Douglas Crase. This is an age where limits are required...

Poetry Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941 by Sharon Olds. That winter, the dead could not be buried...