The Diplomatic Round SUMMITEERING by John Newhouse. THE DIPLOMATIC ROUND about summit meetings. Last November's meeting in Geneva between Reagan & Gorbachev ended with agreement to have a second meeting, one that might produce an agreement on nuclear arms. Events have added to the confusion about whether or not a second summit will be held. The first...

The Current Cinema ERSATZ by Pauline Kael.

The Talk of the Town Panel of Experts by William McKibben. Talk story about the opinions of seven experts in disparate fields, including Reuben Silverbird, a restauranteur who launched Silverbird--New York City's first Native American restaurant, at 84th & Columbus, 11 weeks ago. Tells about the origin of the buffalo meat & rattlesnake used in some of the dishes there...

Fiction Trying by Mary A. Robison. Bridie O'Donell is a 17-year-old day student at St. Benedict's whose home is in northern Virginia, not far from Washington, D.C. Bridie is friendly with Proudbird, a senior at St. Benedict's who is an exchange student from Lagos. She lies to get into the rectory to see him...

Comment Comment, Pt. II by Tony Gibbs. A friend writes that his son went off to college last week leaving behind the expected shambles in his bedroom and the equally expected feeling of emptiness in the nest. His mother said goodbye at the door, and he and the writer drove off to school, the car packed to...

Comment Comment Pt. I by Lawrence Weschler. We happened to have the radio on one evening while we were reading a new report by the N.Y. -based Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, entitled "The War Against Children: South Africa's Youngest Victims", an account of the often brutal treatment suffered by black children during the apartheid regime's recent...

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

Around City Hall The Straw Dog Circuit by Andy Logan. Gov. Cuomo was under attack because of his active role in helping Stanley Lundine, his chosen candidate for lieutenant governorship, successfully challenge the nominating petitions that, under state election law, would validate the candidacy for lieutenant governor of Abaham Hirschfeld. Cuomo has not take issue with any of Hirschfeld's ideological...

Books by Jeremy Bernstein.

Fiction Kingdom Come by Mavis Gallant. After having spent 24 years in the Republic of Saltnatek, where he extablished the first modern university, recorded the vacabulary and structure of the Saltnatek tongue, and discovered in a remote village an allophylian language unknown except to its speakers, Dr. Dominic Missierna was ejected from the country and returned...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Our Footloose Correspondents COUNTERCLOCKWISE by Tony Gibbs. OUR FOOTLOOSE CORRESPONDENTS about circumnavigating Long Is. by cabin cruiser. About 5 years ago, the writer & his wife, Elaine, decided to circumnavigate L.I. The distance, not counting detours, is about 275 statute miles... In recent years, the Great South Bay which separates most of Fire Is. from L.I. had...

Poetry Margaret Fuller, 1847 by Amy Clampitt. In this her 37th year, the Italy...

Poetry After the War by Bin Ramke. Over the field the poison curled...