An international quarterly magazine of politics, culture, literature and the arts published at Skidmore College
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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]

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Salmagundi Magazine: A Skidmore Student’s Perspective
February 19, 2021Liv Fidler (‘19) recounts her rich experience working with Salmagundi Magazine as a Skidmore student, interviewing award-winning contributors and making media with the resources of a Skidmore-published magazine featuring the best writers and writing from around the world since 1965.

Disorders of Articulation

Trading Places

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Alternative Facts, Post Truth & The Great American Eclipse

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

After the Beheading

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Before The Earth Cooled:

The Pre-Jazz Life and Music of Buddy Bolden

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The Home Key, #5:

An Interview with Russell Potter

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Salmagundi Magazine’s “SALon” Podcast, Episode 1 SALon: TRANSLATION
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Translation: a carrying over but also a blundering through, a desire, perhaps a little feral, to get hold of what you don’t possess and transform it into something you can use, something that’s yours. Listen in to Episode 1 of Salmagundi’s Podcast “SALon” …

Mary Gordon translates her phobias into non-fiction: on boredom & bad smells 3:26 ARCHIVES 1 Rudolf Arnheim on Van Gogh and Gauguin: translating nature 10:40 Peter Gizzi: Rainy Days & Monday — Pop into Poetry 11:37 ARCHIVES 2 Ben Belitt on translators: illusionists, epistimologists, and the sybil 20:57 Vijay Seshadri: Bach, Etta James, Amazing Grace, Commas & Full Stops 22:20 ARCHIVES 3 Terry Caesar on English in Japan 26:27 Taerin Kim: On Family and Not Speaking the Same Language 28:37 James Miller on “El Paso"and Music Writing 30:46 Max Nelson on film-maker Claire Denis and translating emotion in film 35:31

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Robert and Peg Boyers in the Salmagundi office, 1976

An Utterance That Becomes a Person

On Now It’s Dark

Looking for Bucharest

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Thomas Mann and Sigmund Freud:

The Friendship of Genius

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Something That Would Have Been Somebody:

Abortion, Reproductive Justice, and Political Imagination

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

After George Steiner:

A Personal Recollection

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Poetry, Prose, and Longing:

The Memoirs of Honor Moore*

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

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Tim Foljahn (Photo by Caryn Palmier)

The Home Key #4:

A Conversation with Tim Foljahn

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Conducting the Light and The Dark

A Note on Jason Molina

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