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Our Spring-Summer issue, number 230-231, is out now and we’ll be taking orders for hard copies and offering selections from its typically various and provocative pages over the next weeks

New Light Tabernacle

Carl Dennis

Invisible Ink: A Mystery

Robert Cohen

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Memorial to Venus

Dalia Rosenfeld

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

On the Bobos

William Deresiewicz

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Phillips and Emerson:

Against Understanding

Phillip Lopate

On Learning How To Act:

A Reply to Adam Phillips & The Pleasures of Censorship

Joseph Cermatori
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The Home Key #6:

Get Back

Rick Moody

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Marc Woodworth

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Adam Braver

If You Would Let Me

Maggie Dietz
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Special Features
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Money: A Special Feature
Salmagundi No. 185/186, Winter – Spring 2015

Googlegangers & Flaccid Designators

Martin Jay

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Kalim Mansour

Cameron Mackenzie

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Ferocious Entertainment:

Lionel Shriver

Christine Bini

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Nabokov and Balthus:

The Erotic Imagination

Jeffrey Meyers

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Notes on Monogamy

Elizabeth Benedict
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The Home Key #12

Every Good Song Pete Townshend Wrote After Quadrophenia, An Annotation

Rick Moody

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Adam Braver

Mummy

Maggie Dietz

Disenchantment and Dogma

William Deresiewicz

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Excerpts
Even having a narrative—because when you have more than one album, there’s already a sort of implicit narrative—is something. Right, you went from here and then to there, and where were you?
This excerpt appears in The Home Key, #5: , by

Rick Moody

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