Books by Robert Coles.

Fiction Summer People by Ann Beattie. Byron was Tom's son from his first marriage. It was the second year that he was staying with Tom and Jo in their summer house in Vermont. In the school year he lived with his mother in Philadelphia and they lived in New York. Tom had trouble getting used to...

Reflections TWO LETTERS by George F. Kennan. REFLECTIONS in the form of letters from writer, one to a Russian, one to an American. First one lists a number of long-standing aspects of Soviet system which combat improvement, of East-West relations. The Soviet past, especially the terrible events that occured from 1935 to 1953, is a...

A Political Journal by Elizabeth Drew. Tells about the Mondale-Ferraro campaign. The main Labor Day event was at the Merrill, Wisconsin, fairgrounds. This picturesque small town was selected after much deliberation. A large & cheerful crowd turned out for the candidates. Unfortunately the day got off to a bad start when Mondale &...

The Talk of the Town Clean by William McKibben. Two-part Talk story about the N.Y.C. Department of Sanitation & Mierle Ladreman Ukeles, their official but unsalaried artist-in-resaidence. Part 1 is about an exhibition called "Touch Sanitation Show." It took place on Pier 99, at the W. 59th Street Marine Transfer Station & included the...

The Talk of the Town Te Maori by Nancy Ramsey. Talk story about the new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art called "Te Maori: Maori Art from New Zealand Collections," organized by the American Federation of Arts. Last Monday at dawn the writer attended the Maori ritual that opened the exhibit. Writer talked to several members of Maori tribes...

The Talk of the Town Elephant Extravaganza by Emily Hahn. Talk story about the Elephant Weekend IV at the Bronx Zoo on September 8th & 9th, billed as "the most exciting elephant extravaganza ever." Ordinarily, elephants Happy, Grumpy, & Tus work at zoo-elephant jobs, giving rides & performing a regular exhibition. Elephants Patty, Maxine &...

Comment by William McKibben. When "history" overtakes some new chunk of the recent past, it always comes as a relief. History fumigates experience, making it safe and sterile. A biography of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, by Eknath Easwaran, called "A Man to Match His Mountains," will be published next year by the Nilgiri Press. Born...

Poetry Simon by Donald Barthelme. Simon is in bed with a poet with long red hair. "The...

Poetry The North Atlantic by William Logan. Days it lorded above us like a coin... /I slept with one...

Poetry The Sound of the Light by W. S. Merwin. I hear sheep running on the path of broken limestone...