The Current Cinema BOORMAN'S PLUNGE by Pauline Kael.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Since the beginning of what the Poles call the "renewal" of their country, there has existed a curious disparity between Polish and Western judgments about the direction in which events are moving there. Repeatedly, Western opinion has persuaded itself that a Soviet invasion was all but inevitable, while the Poles...

The Theatre NO LAUGHTER by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town General Useful by Mark Singer. Talk story about Tiger Land, almost 72 years old, who joined the maintenance crew at Madison Square Garden 40 years ago, and is the Garden's house rigger. Writer spoke with him shortly after 7 AM when he had just come down from the ceiling of the Garden where he had...

The Talk of the Town PRINCE by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about a visit to an exhibit of art objects from the Royal Court of Benin at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University. The Crown Prince of Benin, Dr. Flora Kaplan (an anthropology professor who was responsible for the exhibit) and others were there. According to the...

Musical Events Vindication by Nicholas Kenyon.

Fiction The Letter from Home by Jamaica Kincaid. The narrator describes a period in her life in one long sentence. She milked the cows, fed the children, brewed the tea, etc. She went to the country, the car broke down, she walked back. She spent some time alone and she questioned herself, and finally, in a kind of...

The Talk of the Town Thinking and Writing by Mark Singer. Talk story about a 3-week "Workshop in Language and Thinking" at Bard College, which will be required for all entering freshmen. It is the idea of Leon Botstein 34, who teaches at and presides over Bard College at Annandale-on-Hudson. He was in New York City, at the...

Fiction Stephanie, Stephen, Steph, Steve by Penelope Gilliatt. Stephanie Angelica Bysehe Talbot Duncan is born in 1929, the daughter of Stephen and Stephanie Duncan. Her mother's great-great-grandfather Stephen had declared in his will that any and all descendants and descendants' spouses or beneficiaries were to be christened, or to adopt the name by deed poll, Stephen...

Dancing Additions and Subtractions by Arlene Croce.

Reflections NO NAME, NO NUMBER by Jacobo Timerman. REFLECTIONS about the writer's imprisonment, without being charged, and torture, in Argentina. He is 57, a Jew, born in Russia. His family moved to Argentina in 1928 when he was a child. He is now in Israel. In April, 1977, he was arrested unceremoniously, at dawn, by members of an...

Poetry On the Jetty by Kathrine Jason. As if they would exist only in the reflection of your...

Poetry Brooding Likeness by Louise Gluck. I was born in the month of the bull...