Books by V. S. Pritchett.

Fiction We Are Still Married by Garrison Keillor. Earl, a busdriver, was married to Willa. They lived in a 2-bedroom condominium overlooking Lake Larson in Minnesota. One day last August the vet told them their dog Biddy had only months to live. Blair Hague, a writer from People magazine called & said"I'd like to...do...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. During the decades of the Cold War, American foreign policy has been prey to obsession. Our most engulfing & ruinous obsession was the war in Vietnam. It had great importance, but it was an importance that, for the most part, we ourselves had invested it with. By our own...

The Current Cinema SMALLER THAN LIFE by Pauline Kael.

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

Letter from Europe by Jane Kramer. Many European painters came to Paris in the early seventies looking for an artistic captital only to discover that the capital was New York. Paris' beauty casts a kind of paralysis on its citizens. It is an utterly completed place. In a way, there is nothing to add to Paris...

Fiction Somewhere, Belgium by Jamaica Kincaid. Annie, a 15-year-old girl in Antigua, was very depressed. She wasn't getting along with her mother, who noticed that if she said something Annie did reminded her of her own self at Annie's age, Annie would do it a different way. To the rest of the world, they...

The Talk of the Town Out of Breath by William McKibben. Fourth part of a four part Talk story about sports. A week ago Sunday, at six-thirty in the morning, the writer was in lower Manhattan, not far from City Hall. He kept running into bikers waiting for the start of the American Youth Hostel-Citibank Five Boro Bike Tour...

The Talk of the Town First Piano Concerto by Timothy Crouse. Talk story about the New York premiere of Peter Lieberson's Piano Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall. It was performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Peter Serkin, with Seiji Ozawa conducting. Mr. Lieberson completed the concerto, his first, last year, at the age of thirty-six. It is a complex...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

A Reporter at Large THE CROCODILES OF YAMOUSSOUKRO by V. S. Naipaul. REPORTER AT LARGE about the Ivory Coast, W. Africa, a former French colony, which is generally held to be a political & economic success. Since its independence in 1960 it has been ruled by Felix Houphouet-Boigny. He has ruled well. He used the French as technicians, advisers, administrators...

Concert Records / Popular Music by Winthrop Sargeant.

Poetry Wash by Jane Kenyon. All day the blanket snapped and swelled...

Poetry Stroke by Dave Smith. All the long days of years lying...