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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]

Before The Earth Cooled:

The Pre-Jazz Life and Music of Buddy Bolden

Poetry, Prose, and Longing:

The Memoirs of Honor Moore*

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

Guest Column: Jam Songs

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Column: Art & Culture

Sontag & Rieff

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

The Enigma of Constancy: The Resilience of Trump’s Base

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Lighter than Air

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Three Poems

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Edict

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Notes on White Racial Identity

Salmagundi No. 172/173 (Fall 2011-Winter 2012)

George Steiner (1929-2020)

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Column: Letter From London

The 2019 General Election

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Column: Force Fields

On The Spectrum: Conspiracy Theories and Explanations

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

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Romare Bearden

Bearden’s Studio on Canal Street, New York City (1976)

(Photo by Blaine Waller)

Conjure Women: Romare Bearden and the Stories Great Grandmother Told

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Mark Strand Going Fast

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

What She Sees in the Diorama

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Modigliani and the Poets

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020