The Current Cinema YES, YES by Pauline Kael.

The Talk of the Town Paddling by Mark Singer. A talk story about two men, Bill Scheller & Chris Maynard, canoemen. Writer tells about 3 recent canoe trips they made, one in Canada, and two in urban areas. In their first urban canoe trip, they paddled the length of the Passaic R. from Morristown, NJ to Newark Harbor, stopping...

The Theatre SCOTCH MIST by Brendan Gill.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Fiction The News From Ireland by William Trevor. Story set in 1847 Ireland during the height of the Potato Famine. Poor Irish Protestants is what the Fogartys are: Butler & cook. Fogarty is presently fscinated by the newly-arrived governess: Anna Maria Heddoe, from England. He observes her daily, but he does not reveal his obsession to his...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. The American Revolution began with the shot heard round the world. The Philippine revolution began & ended without a shot fired & that unfired shot, too, has been heard round the world... The Filipinos in the streets spoke of "people power," but what is it, actually? Can peoplee power, like...

The Talk of the Town Claude Simon by Natacha Stewart. Talk story about a visit to N.Y.U.'s Maison Francaise at 16 Washington Mews. Prof. David Noakes invited writer to a reception in honor of Claude Simon, winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature. "As soon as we had accepted, we took Simon's novel "The Flander's Road" (1960) off...

Books by Susan Lardner.

Annals of the Former World III-RISING FROM THE PLAINS by John McPhee. ANNALS OF THE FORMER WORLD about geology & what the writer saw travelling across Wyoming with geologist David Love. He is only the second person in the history of American geology who has served as senior author of a state map twice (Wyoming 1955, Wyoming 1985). The maps set a...

Poetry Losing the Marbles by James Merrill. Morning spent looking for my calendar...