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.

Diane Arbus and Sylvia Plath:

“The Horror! The Horror!”

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Weightless Effusions

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Can a Free Society Enforce Inclusiveness?

Rick Moody, Life Coach:

The Record of Your Experiences

Undertow, Wolf’s Head Lake

How Zen Ruins Poets

Your Living Eyes

A Few Clear Moments

Race & Integration:

An Interview with Calvin Baker

The Forward-Looking Anachronist:

Johan Huizinga and Autumntide of the Middle Ages

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Cornelius Eady (Tie by Susan Micklem)

The Home Key #3:

An Interview with Cornelius Eady

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Gifts from Joyce

Salmagundi No. 103, Summer 1994

Literature and Engagement:

The Power of Words

The Poet’s Staircase

On Robert Lowell

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