California From England By William Logan, From "Sullen Weedy Lakes" (David R. Godine: $9.95, paper; 76 pp.). This is Logan's third collection of poems. He is a critic as well as a poet and has won this year's reviewing citation from the National Book Critics Circle.
Boost in Services Productivity Needed By A. Gary Shilling, A. GARY SHILLING \o7 is a New York-based economic consultant and author of "After the Crash: Recession or Depression?", published by Lakeview Economic Services\f7
Human Society Carries Trouble to the Bottom of the World By Michael Parfit, \o7 Michael Parfit is the author of "South Light: A Journey to the Last Continent," and "Chasing the Glory: Travels Across America" (Macmillan). He has just returned from his fifth trip to Antarctica\f7
Suddenly, an Audience for Arafat By Tad Szulc, \o7 Veteran foreign correspondent Tad Szulc traveled with Yasser Arafat at the end of January\f7
A Glasnost Litmus Test for Filming By George Stein, \o7 George Stein, a Times staff writer, was a fellow at Columbia University's W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union\f7
A Shattered Afghanistan Finds Nothing to Celebrate By Debra Denker, \o7 Debra Denker, who is working on a novel based on her experiences in Afghanistan, has produced a documentary about Afghan refugees and written about them for the National Geographic magazine\f7
'Conditions of Children': California's Youth at Risk By Julia Koppich and Michael W. Kirst, \o7 Michael W. Kirst is a director of Policy Analysis for California Education and a professor of education at Stanford. Julia Koppich is executive director of PACE. Copies of "The Conditions of Children in California" are available for $15 each from PACE, 3659 Tolman Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720\f7
Shades of Germany's 'Unmasterable Past' By Amos Perlmutter, \o7 Amos Perlmutter is a professor of political science and sociology at American University and editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies\f7