Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Comment by William Finnegan. In Sept. 1981, Keith Coleman, editor of a student newspaper at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, was arrested by police. He was held without charges for 5 months, most of that time in solitary confinement... His parents, Audrey & Max Coleman started meeting with the parents of other political detainees &...

Books by John Updike.

The Theatre COLLOQUY by Edith Oliver.

A Reporter at Large DRY SEASON by Judith Thurman. REPORTER AT LARGE about Nicaragua. Tells of the political conflict in the country which led, early in the present century, to U.S. Marines being sent in "to protect American lives and property". In 1934 a Liberal politician named Anastasio Somoza had a Liberal general, Augusto Sandino assassinated. Then began a...

Comment Comment, Pt. II by Adam Gopnik. Obituary of Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman, who died Feb. 15, 1988...

The Talk of the Town Past Lives by Nancy Ramsey. Talk story about meeting Michael Talbot, the author of "Your Past Lives: A Reincarnation Handbook." Writer met him recently on a Saturday morning when the New York Open Center, on Spring Street, had provided him with a skylit room for his day-long seminar "Your Past Lives: Exploring the Techniques...

Concert Records / Popular Music by Mark Moses.

Fiction Five Points by Alice Munro. In the trailer park on the cliffs above Lake Huron, Brenda is with Neil, the man with whom she is having an affiar. She married Cornelius when she was 20, and they have 2 children in high school. Cornelius used to work in the mines but hurt his back during...

The Sporting Scene THE LAST AMATEURS by Stephen Kiesling. THE SPORTING SCENE about the 1987 Oxford-Cambridge boat race... In 1987, Oxford's head coach was Dan Topolski, 41, an Oxford grad with black hair, a tanned face & a broken-looking nose. He describes himself as a free-lance writer rather than as a rower or a coach, although...

The Talk of the Town by Garrison Keillor. Talk story about visiting Radio City Music Hall last Monday and watching Michael Jackson hang around for a few hours waiting to rehearse his big number for a Grammy Awards telecast. On the CBS rundown sheet writer grabbed off a stack backstage, Jackson's name was about 1/3 of the way...

Poetry Border Zone, Minefield, Snow East of Bebra by Lars Gustafsson. Only the barbed wire and glaring arc lamps...

Poetry Two Climbing by Eamon Grennan. After the blackface sheep, almond coats daubed...