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Margo Jefferson at Salmagundi’s “Sharing the Wealth” conference on February 3. Photograph by Emma Dodge Hanson
Politics

Arguing Belief and Unbelief: A Symposium – Session One

Faith, Doubt, Atheism, Obedience

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

Essays

Tragic Destinies

Hemingway And Plath Letters

Jeffrey Meyers

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

Essays Politics

The Land of Utopian Denial

Steve Fraser

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

Reviews

Still Learning

A Review of Edward St. Aubyn, Dunbar

Francisco Unger

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

The Shipwrecked Mind:

On Political Reaction

Patrick J. Keane
Essays

Shabby Gentility

Rick Moody

Salmagundi No. 185/186, Winter – Spring 2015

Essays

Walter Benjamin, Fabulist*

Joseph Cermatori
Online Poetry

“The wingspan of your voice … / Cannot be taken down”

In Memory of Lucie Brock-Broido

Marc Woodworth
Poetry

A Possum Entering the Argument

Tom Healy

Salmagundi No. 162-163, (2009)

Poetry

London. High Summer.

William Logan

Salmagundi No. 176 (2012)

Poetry

Water Damage

Rosanna Warren

Salmagundi 158/159, 2009

Poetry

Porch Steps

Robert Pinsky

Salmagundi No. 124-125, 1999-2000

Poetry

Commas, Dashes, Ellipses, Full Stops, Question Marks

Vijay Seshardi

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Salmagundi # 182-183, Spring - Summer 2014
Essays

Layering Lives

Fiction by Tolstaya and Muñoz Molina

Regina Janes

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

Online

On a Borrowed Horse

Patrick Leigh Fermor

Michael Ondaatje
Essays

“I’ve Cooked the Pudding”

On Djibril Diop Mambety

Max Nelson

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

Watching House of Cards in the Age of Donald Trump

Amy Woodbury Tease

In Lieu Of A Preface

George Steiner

Salmagundi No. 58/59, Fall 1982 – Winter 1983

Online
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Conducting the Light and The Dark

A Note on Jason Molina

Peter Gizzi
Essays Archives

True Believer: My Friendship with Cynthia Ozick

Merrill Joan Gerber

Exoticism Redeemed:

Patrick Leigh Fermor in the Caribbean

Bina Gogineni
Poetry

Pieces

Adrienne Rich

Salmagundi No. 14, 1970

Poetry

Tutelage

Chase Twichell

Salmagundi #144-145 (2004-2005)

Poetry

Toxicology

Henri Cole

Salmagundi No. 148/149, Fall 2005 - Winter 2006

Poetry

The Snake in the Garden

Paul Matthews

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

Scandal Mad and Boy Crazy

Elizabeth Benedict
Excerpts
The late comedian George Carlin once cracked that, “They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it.” That siesta has lasted a very long time; if we back-date it to the earliest era of colonial settlement in the New World we are really talking about four centuries. That astonishing record of longevity is hard evidence that this dream-state is inherent to the central nervous system of the nation.
This excerpt appears in The Land of Utopian Denial, by

Steve Fraser

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