Our Footloose Correspondents BROTHER SUN, SISTER MOON by Lis Harris. OUR FAR-FOUNG CORRESPONDENTS about observances last fall, in Assisi, Italy, of the 25th anniversary of the World Wildlife Fund International (now the World Wide Fund for Nature...

Comment by Calvin Tomkins. Andy Warhol died on Feb. 22. He was the most famous artist of our time. The memorial Mass in his honor at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Apr. 1 made this abundantly clear; it had the character of a state funeral, with people coming as far away as L.A. and Milan...

Fiction Epitaph by Edna O'Brien. When the English narrator first met her married lover, she thought he was too good to be true. She was incredulous when she found out that he, too, was smitten. It was on a Greek island while she was vacationing without him that she began to have some premonition of...

The Talk of the Town Italics by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about a walking tour concerned with the changing meanings & significances of eccentric typography on signs outside restaurants along Madison Ave. in midtown. The writer says he will be especially concerned with that form of eccentric typography known as the Emphatic Inserted Italic--italic letters placed among or...

The Theatre OLD MAN by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town Sizes by Harold Brodkey. Talk story about a short reporter & a tall reporter visiting the Metropolitan Museum's van Gogh exhibition together. ...Short Reporter: Some of my delight in museums, I'm sure, has to do with my being short. In part, this is because I was always happy in museums as a child. (Short...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR? by Andy Logan. On the municipal corruption scene, the investigations, sudden resignations & indictments of longtime City Hall regulars continue apace. Possibly because the list of them is so long, local public reation to the addition of a new name to the roster tends to be relatively muted. Tells about the Wedtech scandal...

Fiction Stunned by Jack Handey. Narrator looked through his telescope, and could hardly believe his eyes; he saw a planet that looked exactly like earth! An exact copy, and he wondered, were there people there? Were they like us? Look more closely, he realized it wasn't exactly like earth, but it looked like earth upside...

A Reporter at Large VEHEMENT FIRE-I by Bryan Di Salvatore. REPORTER AT LARGE about the history & uses of dynamite... (First part of a 2-part article.)... Writer tells about visiting, the place of Annick Smith, a Missoula, Montana film-maker, to witness the detonation of a box of 1948-vintage dynamite. Tells about the life of Alfred Nobel, the...

Books by V. S. Pritchett.

Poetry Visiting Emily Dickinson by Charles Wright. We stood in the cupola for a while...