Cover illustration by Charles Addams.Contents: "Goings On about Town: A Conscientious Calendar of Events of Interest"; "The Talk of the Town" ("Notes and Comment," "Superjet," and "Homestead"); "On Angels," by Donald Barthelme; "The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel," by William Maxwell; "Heraclitus" (poem), by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni; "Out of the Ego Chamber: Arthur C. Clarke" (Profiles), by Jeremy Bernstein; "The Current Cinema: Pacts and Sects" (review of George Cukor's Justine), by Penelope Gilliatt; "The Sporting Scene: The Leaping Corpse, the Bombed Pill, the Shallow Cellar, the French Pastime, the Walking Radio, the Full Aviary, and Other Summer Mysteries," by Roger Angell; "Musical Events: Rock, Etc.," by Ellen Willis; "The Race Track: Rain, Rain, Go Away," by Audax Minor; "Letter from Washington," by Richard H. Rovere; "Idyll" (poem), by Dabney Stuart; "Books: Briefly Noted" (reviews of Elise; or, The Real Life, by Claire Etcherelli; Terror and Resistance: A Study of Political Violence, by Eugene Victor Walter; The Hills of Adonis, by Colin Thubron; Iran: The New Imperialism in Action, by Bahman Nirumand; and Dearest Mama: Letters between Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia, 1861-64, edited by Roger Fulford).Cartoons by Vahan Shirvanian, William Steig, Robert Day, Alan Dunn, Charles Barsotti, Stan Hunt, Joseph Mirachi, Richard Oldden, Warren Miller, William O'Brian, Ed Fisher, Edward Koren, Lee Lorenz, J. B. Handelsman, Henry Martin, and Eldon Dedini.