Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Current Cinema PAIRS by Pauline Kael.

Books by V. S. Pritchett.

Comment by Donald Barthelme. A friend writes: My lover said to me, Sing me a song of Military Technology. So I said to my lover, of course, dear lover, and sang her the song, drawing my inspiration from the pages of "Military Technology", a hefty and lavishly illustrated journal issued thirteen times a year...

American Chronicles OUTDOOR LIFE by Calvin Trillin. AMERICAN CHRONICLES about Ed Dyer, who lived in Central Oregon & through good works had become a valued member of the community. He had a job with the U.S. Forest Service at the ranger station in the town of Sisters, working in the nearby Deschutes National Forest. Eventually he and...

The Talk of the Town Perforated by William McKibben. Talk story about Jim Ruttencutter, who draws stamps for a number of small countries. He is retired from a long and successful career as art director for various advertising agencies. He works on the stamps for the Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corp., a 48th St. concern that broke into the stamp...

The Talk of the Town Strong Redux by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about 57-year-old Canadian Maurice F. Strong, new special adviser to the Secretary-General of the U.N., and previously the executive coordinator of the United Nations Office for Emergency Operations in Africa. In his previous job Strong estimated he had spent at least forty per cent of...

The Talk of the Town Dead Sea Stroll by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about man who from boyhood has wanted to swim in the Dead Sea, and now has done it. Describes drive in tour bus through Jerusalem, then the outskirts of the city, with Arab villages among boulder-littered hills. Then the desert where the land is empty. Here is...

Fiction The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul. Memoir by a Hindu Indian who was born and raised in Trinidad in the West Indies. He always thought he was a writer, but didn't have the appropiate background. In 1950, when he was 18, he received a scholarship to Oxford. For a month before school began, he lived in...

The Talk of the Town Bulletin from Connecticut by Susan Lardner. What with rabid raccoons working their way north from MD and PA at a pace of twenty-five miles per year, according to the newspapers, habitues of CT, the Nutmeg State, distraught at the prospect of a dip in the price of cottages below the half-million-dollar mark, have...

Poetry An Anatomy of Migraine by Amy Clampitt. Inquire what consciousness is made of...