Comment by Renata Adler. Comment about the nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork to a seat on the Supreme Court which had been vacated by Justice Lewis Powell... It is the current conservative Court & its continuity with its predecessors in almost every major case upholding an individual constitutional right against the powers of...

Books by Brad Leithauser.

Fiction Children by Richard Ford. The writer, George, recalls a day in May in 1961 when he and his friend Claude Philips, a half-Blackfeet Indian, were 17. Their families had rented out farmhouses from the bank in Great Falls. They were in a remote part of Montana near the Canadian border. Claude's father, Sherman...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Theatre LETTER TO A MAN IN ROW G by Mimi Kramer.

Reflections SUFFERING TOWARD THE WHITE HOUSE by Richard Harris. REFLECTIONS about the campaign for the Presidency... According to a story on the"Times", political pollsters claim that voters today most of all want their next President to have "heart" or "soul." Apparently the words can be used interchangeably, which is fitting since they are equally meaningless--sort of linguistic...

A Reporter at Large SEARCHING FOR KAATERSKILL FALLS by Naomi Bliven. REPORTER AT LARGE about Kaaterskill Falls, the highest water fall in N.Y. State. The falls' international renown began with painter Thomas Cole's first trip up the Hudson to the Catskill Mountains, in 1825, which inspired 3 famous pictures Cole returned repeatedly to paint the mountins, & in 1836 he settled...

Poetry Poll by Veronica Geng. Which of these descriptions do you feel describe Liet. Colonel North? Describes...

Poetry Eclogue V: Summer by Joseph Brodsky. I hear you again, mosquito hymn of summer...