Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

Fiction End of an Era by Garrison Keillor. An aging hippie, 43, Larry Rose, died suddenly while cleaning out his garage. Sarah, his friend of a few weeks, is visited by friends who knew him fairly well. They bring her health food, which they place on a table he had made from a large wooden spool. They also...

Comment by Richard Sennett. A friend writes: In September, the Italian writer Italo Calvino died, aged 61, from the effects of a stroke. A few months before, when I last saw him at my apartment, he had completed a novel, "Mr. Palomar" and was working on the Charles Eliot Norton lectures which he was...

Reflections FLIGHT FROM BYZANTIUM by Joseph Brodsky. REFLECTIONS about Istanbul. Writer, 45, left his home town of Leningrad in 1972, for good. He promised himself to circumnavigate the inhabited world along the latitude & longitude on which Leningrad is situated. This, in part, is his reason for visiting Istanbul. Gives his thoughts on the city's history and...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Anniversary Comment by Jonathan Schell. Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's Prime Minister, in America for the 40th anniversary of the United Nations, was interviewed by John Darnton of the New York Times. He stated that while any assumption that Solidarity was a real & organized force was some sort of a misunderstanding, nonetheless, his government had...

The Talk of the Town Opening by Wallace White. Talk story about the opening of a new hotel in Times Square, called the Marriott Marquis, which is on Broadway between 45th and 46th Streets. From the outside it looks like a glass drum enclosed in a cement sandwich. Writer tells about the opening celebration, and lists some things he...

Fiction New Haven by Alice Mattison. Eleanor lives in New Haven, Conn. She is a cellist, and is singing in the chorus of an opera being staged by the local PTA. She and her new friend, Patsy, have fallen into the habit of going to Clark's Dairy after rehearsals. She first met Patsy several months ago...

Dance The Tango by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about 3 dance teams from the musical revue "Tango Argentino." The show is roughly historical, tracing the dance from the Buenos Aires slums of the 1880s to 20th-century ballrooms. The format permits each team to present at least one number on its own. Writer spoke to the...

Books by John Updike.

The Art World by Sanford Schwartz. Account of the life & work of David Park, who has a show currently running at the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Sanford Schwartz.

Poetry For Now and Always by Gary Myers. I would like to hold you bell that chimes in the underground...

Poetry In a Bonsai Nursery by Brad Leithauser. Nearly nothing...