An international quarterly magazine of politics, culture, literature and the arts published at Skidmore College
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Our 60th anniversary issue, just out, represents precisely what we’ve been offering over these many decades: a wide and surprising range of work by the best writers on everything from politics and literature to art and the current culture. Along with a collection of columns from the past and a timely consideration of AI and the humanities, the issue offers new poems by Robert Pinsky and Chase Twichell, among others, a letter from Israel, a story by Joyce Carol Oates, a report from Hanoi, a review of recent books on racial justice and integration along with editor-in-chief Robert Boyers, who started Salmagundi in New York City in 1965, on fascism and resistance in our dangerous moment. After 60 years, no backing down in sight —#228-229 is a banger.

The Home Key #12

Every Good Song Pete Townshend Wrote After Quadrophenia, An Annotation

Wielding the Lyric

On Now It’s Dark

In Which I Talk Further with AI About a Theory of Mind1

The Home Key #18

The Solo Years

The Home Key #17

Things I Enjoyed in 2024, Band Edition

The Home Key #16

An Interview with Dean Olsher

Witness to the Open Classroom Movement

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The Home Key #15: You’ll Never Know!—An Interview With Julian Saporiti

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The Home Key #14: Now and Then

From an “Introduction” to Barry Goldensohn at a 1999 Public Reading he delivered at Skidmore College

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“Sad Song”

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The Home Key #20

Defector From the Petty Wars

Celebrating David Lynch

Let Us Compare Mythologies

Weekday

Balanchine’s Life-Affirming Life*

The Home Key #13: An Interview with Grumbeaux

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Body & Mind: Barry Goldensohn

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

Six Poems