The Talk of the Town Sharecroppers by Berton Roueche. Talk story about Promised Land Farm, a nonprofit farming project based on the idea of Community Supported Agriculture, near the writer's place on eastern Long Island. Its director, Bob Willett, is assisted by Scott Chaskey and John Callewaert in the field. Chaskey had experience as a gardener in England...

Journals I-FROM THE LATE FORTIES AND THE FIFTIES by John Cheever. JOURNALS detailing the writer's experience of living in Westchester, N.Y., and commuting to New York City; his self-doubt and restlessness in his relationships with his wife, Mary, and their young children Susan and Benjamin; and his difficulties in writing fiction. He meditates about walking around New York...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Report from Cyprus by Mary Anne Weaver. Since 1974 Cyprus has been a divided state with two ethnic communities: the Greek and the Turkish. Writer visited the Turkish-occupied, abandoned city of Varosha, on the east coast. The Austrian contingent of the United Nations peacekeeping force-known as the Blue Berets-patrols Varosha, but the troops are...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Books by Naomi Bliven.

The Talk of the Town American Cheese by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about attending the yearly meeting of the American Cheese Society. On a recent Wednesday morning, the feminist goat-cheese maker Anne Topham left her farm, in Ridgeway, Wisconsin, and, bringing with a little cooler that contained samples of her three varieties of wholesome bright, fresh chevre--the boulot...

Comment by Lincoln Caplan. Comment about the retirement of Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, and the selection of Judge David Souter of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, as a candidate to replace him. The American inclination to reduce large public choices to their divisive essence revealed itself almost immediately after...

The Talk of the Town True Hair by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about the hairdresser Giuseppe Franco, and his employee Genice Jarvis, who did Mickey Rourke's hair for the movie "Barfly". Rourke, who is Franco's business partner, plays a drunk in "Barfly", a film about Charles Bukowski. The key to his hair was shiny/oily and greasy.. Writer spoke to...

Letter from Washington by Elizabeth Drew. Tells about budget & tax negotiations between, the President and the Democrats. The President's Jun. 26 acknowledgement of the obvious--that new taxes would have to be part of a budget agreement--followed a series of backstage meetings by key participants in the budget negotiations. The Democrats had been saying...

Poetry Falling Asleep by Robert Pinsky. Black thatch, black root...

Poetry Even If You Weren't My Father by Camillo Sbarbaro. Father, even if you weren't my father...