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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]

Let Us Compare Mythologies

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“This Piece of Land That’s Breaking”:

In Conversation With Artist Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo

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“Sad Song”

The Home Key #17

Things I Enjoyed in 2024, Band Edition

Weekday

Balanchine’s Life-Affirming Life*

The Home Key #13: An Interview with Grumbeaux

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

My Park Avenue Year

I Lost My Life in 2006

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Bill Orcutt (photograph by Jim Hensley)

The Home Key #11:

An Interview with Bill Orcutt

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Body & Mind: Barry Goldensohn

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

The Home Key #12

Every Good Song Pete Townshend Wrote After Quadrophenia, An Annotation

Wielding the Lyric

On Now It’s Dark

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

Six Poems

Dead Brothers

West Side Story, Old and New

An Interview with ChatGPT

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Dylan Comes Apart In “Fragments: ‘Time Out Of Mind’ Sessions”