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We eagerly await SALMAGUNDI’s new issue to arrive from the printer — our fall 2024 issue is devoted to the subject of TASTE, tackling issues not only aesthetic and culinary but political and psychological. Contents include a lively and contentious symposium on why taste does (or doesn’t) matter, and articles on a taste for the forbidden, on dramatic changes in our tolerance (or appetite) for particular experiences or artworks, and on the relationship of food to other aspects of the culture. Contributors include Rick Moody, Ian Buruma, Michael Gorra, Celeste Marcus, Willard Spiegelman, David Herman (on Martin Amis) Jay Rogoff (on Fred Astaire), Gorman Beauchamp (Art and Morality) and Matthew Straus (a chef in the anthropocene).

Plus Patrick J. Keane remembers Helen Vendler, Daniel Helpern has lunch with Genet, Charlotte Allen considers the films of Yorgos Lanthimos, Robert Boyers complicates the idea of Asian art, David Bromberg writes from Jerusalem and Martin Jay ruminates on American Fiction.

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cover image: Kelly Wang, “Cloud Dragon 10” (2024) [courtesy Hollis Taggart]

GOOD TASTE, BAD TASTE, NO TASTE, WHY TASTE?

A Salmagundi Symposium

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

A Chef in the Anthropocene

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Guest Column / A War of Words

Salmagundi 222 - 223, Spring - Summer 2024

The Care Giver

Salmagundi 222 - 223, Spring - Summer 2024

From the River to the Sea

Getting it Right, Getting it Wrong

Salmagundi 222 - 223, Spring - Summer 2024

Bees

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

Last Orders at the Gay Hussar*

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

The Doc

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

Column: Going to the Movies

Jordan Peele’s Divided Aesthetic

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

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“This Piece of Land That’s Breaking”:

In Conversation With Artist Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo

Notes on a Photograph from 1884

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Partisanship & Denial:

A Response To Andrew Sullivan and Finally Getting It

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

A Thousand Gentle Smotherings

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

The Home Key #17

Things I Enjoyed in 2024, Band Edition

Letter From Jerusalem: Bibi the Collaborationist

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

The Art Scene: Transcultural Dialogues

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Force Fields: Afropessimism and the Figural Negro

Ruminations on American Fiction

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Art and Moralities

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Thinking About Taste

On Bad Taste, My Taste, and The Tasteless

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Blandness with a Touch of Paprika

A Taste for Jack Benny

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Kafka and the Uncanny

Chacun à son gout

Improvisations on a Theme by Richard Taruskin

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Let Us Compare Mythologies

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Donald Judd, 15 untitled works in concrete, 1980–84 Permanent collection, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas. Photo by Florian Holzherr, courtesy of The Chinati Foundation. Donald Judd Art © 2024 Judd Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image by Florian Holzherr.

The Art Scene: The Ghost of Donald Judd

Guest Column/ Hilary Mantel’s Ghost(s)

Salmagundi 222 - 223, Spring - Summer 2024

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Barry Goldensohn Image by Emma Dodge Hanson

Body & Mind: Barry Goldensohn

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

The Martyr

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

James Salter’s Strange Career

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

The Summoning

An Interview with J.M. Coetzee

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

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Guest Column: Christopher Hitchens and the Necessity of Universalism

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Art

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

Two Poems

Two Poems

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

Lunch With Genet

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Guest Column: Power Tools

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

A World on Film: Yorgos Lanthimos

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

On Taste

A Salmagundi Symposium

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Martin Amis and the Changing of the Guard

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Race, Taste, and Fred Astaire

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

The Home Key #16

An Interview with Dean Olsher

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