The Theatre CYMBELLINE UNDONE by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town Mink by John Colapinto. Talk Story about Mink, a young man who is a chess expert & who plays regularly at the Park. The writer wondered if the chess players at the park were any good. According to Bruce Pandolfini, executive director of the Manhattan Chess Club, & a U.S. National Master, the players...

Fiction Shipwreck by Julian Barnes. The Medusa, one of four vessels that set sail for Senegal in 1816 in June, hit a reef about a month later. A raft carrying 50 men was abandoned by the four ships when they dropped their tow ropes. The writer asks, "How do you turn catastrophe into art." M...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Current Cinema Capsule by Pauline Kael.

Letter from Washington by Elizabeth Drew. The sudden announcement, May 26, that Tony Coelho, Democrat of California & the Majority Whip, who was expected to seek to succeed Thomas Foley, as the Majority Leader, would resign from the House rather than go through a lengthy examination of his own financial conduct stunned almost everyone & set...

Letter from Rostov-On-Don by Robert Cullen. This letter is about how the new political climate of reform is taking hold in the smaller, more typical Russian city of Rostov, which is located 60 miles south of Moscow. The cooperative boom represents the most radical change in the economy. In March of 1989 Izvestiya reported that 77...

Comment by William Pfaff. The figure of Liberty--or the Goddess of Democracy, as it came to be called--that was erected last week in Beijing's Tiananmen Square appears to be on non-Chinese origins. The vocabulary employed by the students & their supporters cro- crowding the center of Beijing this past month &...

Comment Comment Pt. II by Adam Gopnik. Talk Story about a group of Chinese journalists who met for dinner at China Pavillion on West 56th St. to discuss the recent events in China, ie. pro-democracy demonstrations. Richard Liu, owner of the China Pavillion planned the dinner for his friend, Johnny Chao, a talk show host on...

Annals of Radiation THE HAZARDS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS I-POWER LINES by Paul Brodeur. ANNALS OF RADIATION about the effects of electromagnetic fields on human health. Tells about a Denver-based study conducted by Nancy Wertheimer, an epidemiologist who discovered a link between childhood-cancer & magnetic fields from power lines. Mentions experiments by Dr. Robert Becker involving the biological effects of magnetic &...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town A Lot To Learn by Eve Kahn. Talk story. Writer visits Randall's Island in order to see the twenty-seven-acre campus, near the foot of the Triborough Bridge, where the Fire Academy conducts an eight-week training session for recruits...

Poetry Looking for Luck in Bangkok by Maxine Kumin. Often at markets I see...

Poetry Instructions: Early Epihanies by Elizabeth Macklin. What to do:. First you put your hand on her arm...

Poetry The Idea by Mark Strand. For us, too, there was a wish to possess...