Books David Garnett by V. S. Pritchett.

The Talk of the Town Walk by Patti Hagan. Talk story about a walking tour of the Upper East Side, with Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger. Mr. Goldberger, author of "The City Observed: New York," started the tour at Books & Co., a store located on Madison Ave. in the Seventies. He told his 25 followers that the walk...

The Current Cinema CRAFT by Pauline Kael.

Comment by James Stevenson. Our acquaintance whose daughter spent the winter in a trailer on top of a mountain in the Caribbean has passed on a short note from the daughter's friend Jim: "We are back on Cape Cod... The bad news here is they are bulldozing the woods next to us to build...

The Talk of the Town The Early Horses by Eugene Kinkead. Talk story about an interview with Mrs. Mary Aiken Littauer, expert on the subject of the horse in ancient times. Writer was advised to speak with Mrs. Littauer by Dr. Mary Moore, a Hunter College professor of ancient art. Mrs. Littauer's interest in horses dates from childhood ownership of a...

The Sporting Scene CIRCUS IN MOSCOW by E. J. Kahn. THE SPORTING SCENE about the Olympic Games recently held in Moscow. The United States boycotted the Games because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. There were 81 sporting delegations to parade past President Leonid Brezhnev. Sixteen contingents, to show their sympathy with, if not observance of, the American boycott did...

Fiction The Angels by Milan Kundera. Writer interweaves the story of what happened to him in Prague with the story of Michelle and Gabrielle, two American girls studying Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" with other foreign students in France. In their presentation they wear paper cones over their noses to demonstrate that Ionesco was trying to create a comic...

The Talk of the Town Lunch Hour at the Battery by Alec Wilkinson. Talk story about lunchtime at Battery Park. In summer, a popular thing among the people who work for the big banks, law firms, and brokerage houses at the lower end of Manhattan is having lunch at the Battery. Writer quotes conversations overheard, which consist of minor complaining and sports talk...

Around City Hall THIS QUESTION OF SURVIVAL AROUND CITY HALL by Andy Logan. The opening of the Democratic National Convention in New York coincides with the realization among state and city politicians that New York is unable to balance its budget. Now that settlements have been reached between the MTA and the TWU, and the city and the municipal unions, it appears that...

On the Street The Cat Lady by Anthony Taber. Sixteen drawings showing a lady picking up a stray cat on the street and bringing him to her home, which is filled with a great many cats. She sits in an armchair and the cats climb all over her. Gradually, she turns into a cat and the cats turn into...

Poetry The Floating Candle by Sydney Lea. You lit a firebrand...

Poetry And Something More Than a Sense of Ending by Andrew Baird. These terms of satisfaction, that you bring me...

Poetry Summer Afternoons And Hypnosis by Robert Penn Warren. Lulled by stream-murmur and the afternoon's hypnosis...