Fiction The Other Woman by John Updike. As Ed Marston made his way back to bed one night the moonlight picked out a flash of white paper in his wife's bureau drawer. Taking it to the bathroom, he saw that it was a valentine fron the husband of a couple they knew, phrased with a ceremonious ardor...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Comment about stability which the people in power have come up with as a new name for peace. There were aprotest demonstrations recently in Oslo where the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a group called International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. The reason was that it had...

The Talk of the Town Ladakh by William McKibben. Talk story about Ladakh, the mountainous corner of India's state of Jammu and Kashmir, and about yaks. Helena Norberg-Hodge, who may be the only living westerner to speak the Ladakhi language fluently, was in the city recently to talk to severla groups about her efforts to simultaneously protect and...

Books by Desmond Shawe-Taylor.

Reflections HAUNTINGS by Alastair Reid. REFLECTIONS about the writer's youth in Scotland. He was born in a village called Whithorn, in the soft southwest. The place has remained his personal Eden. In 1921 his father was chosen & ordained as Church of Scotland minister in Whithorn. His parents firmly took root there. Whithorn, population 700...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Calvin Tomkins.

Greetings, Friends! by Roger Angell. Fair reader, halt! Don't throw away...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Stairway by Wallace White. Talk story about the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which opened recently at Harvard University. It was designed by James Stirling, of the London architectural firm. The Sackler is on the corner of Quincy St. and Broadway, just across from the Fogg Art Museum. It has 60,000 square feet of floor...

Fiction Codicil by Veronica Geng. Experts are now fine-combing writing in every stage... They are trying to determine...how --ideally--he wanted his books published.... Punctuation was important to Faulkner to establish mood & thought. When he wanted to indicate introspection, he punctuated the dialouge in his tightly compressed hand- writing with...

The Theatre COUNTRY PLEASURES by Brendan Gill.

Our Far-Flung Correspondents THE GOTTHARD WALK by John Lukacs. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about a 200-mile walk from Basel to Lugano, across the Gotthard Pass, in Switzerland, which the writer, 62, took with his daughter, 16. Tells about the many writers and others who travelled in Switzerland and took the same route. Goethe was 26 when he first...

List by Susan Lardner. In the 12 minutes of Christmas we spent waiting for our true love at the Information Booth on the upper level of Grand Central Terminal one evening this week, there were 12 commuters running for the Stamford 7:40 local, 11 inquiries at the Subway, Bus and City window, 10 buttons...

The Talk of the Town Free Publicity by William McKibben. Talk story about Richard H. Roffman, who is a publicity man, or press agent, in the old tradition: a promoter of talents as diverse as the world's fastest artist and an implant dentist who was just named Bachelor of the Month by "Cosmopolitan." Mr. Roffman began his career as a...

Poetry Vetiver by John Ashbery. Ages passed slowly, like a load of hay...