The Theatre by Brendan Gill.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Fiction Enchantment by Daphne Merkin. Writer reads aloud to her mother from Shakespeare's sonnets trying to find one to read at her funeral. Her mother isn't dying, she's a robust 63-year-old who speaks of her death with macabre glee. Writer sits on the bed in a room she used to share with 2...

Comment by William McKibben. Comment about the abuses of the election of 1982 in El Salvador. In the 2 years since the last Salvador-an election, some facts have trickled out. We've learned a few things from the documentary"In the Name of Democracy" and from a new book by Frank Brodhead and Edward...

The Talk of the Town Cuddly and Not by William McKibben. Third part of Talk story about animals. This one is about 25 reticulated giraffes, captured in Kenya this winter. They will be sent to Busch Gardens, an amusement park and game preserve in Tampa, Fla. Actress Stefanie Powers told reporters how she helped to capture the giraffes. Jerry Lentz, zoo...

Books by V. S. Pritchett.

Fiction Offering by Stanislaw Lem. Offering Vestrand's Extelopedia In 44 Magnetomes Vestrand Books Company New York-London-Melbourne MMXI Parody of encyclopedia advertisements. "Vestrand Books is pleased to offer you a Subscription to the most future Extelopedia ever... The Extelopedia that we hereby offer you comes in 44 handy Magnetomes, bound in Virginal Pseudoskin... 'Extelopedia'is...

The Talk of the Town Cuddly and Not by Emily Hahn. Second part of three-part Talk story about animals. This one is about the afternoon session of the New York Zoological Society's 88th annual meeting at Avery Fisher Hall. Lists animals seen. Howard Phipps, Jr., the president of the society, gave his report for the year and talked about New...

A Political Journal by Elizabeth Drew. Tells about the state primaries for the Democratic Presidential nomination, principally those in Ala., Ga.,and Fla. Now that Gary Hart has won several primaries it is apparent that support for Mondale is not as intense as his campaign had supposed. Mondale's liabilities include: Carter, interest group support and the...

Jazz Big T by Whitney Balliett. PROFILE of Jack Teagarden, master jazz trombonist and singer. He was born in 1905, in Vernon, Texas, and died in 1964. He was of German and Dutch descent. His father was an engineer who took care of cotton gins, and who taught him mechanics. His mother would have been a...

The Current Cinema HUGH HUDSON OF THE APES by Pauline Kael.

Poetry News of the Occluded Cyclone by Alice Fulton. Night usually computes itself in stars, racks that leaves afterimages/of antlers on...

Poetry Chopping Wood by Dave Smith. Strange how the mind will stand outside the body's snapping torque and...