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]

Russell potter

The Home Key, #5:

An Interview with Russell Potter

Bad Smells

The Teacher

“Our Contemporary Winds”: Christian Petzold’s Transit

Salmagundi No. 204-205, Fall 2019

Bottomless Superficialities, Aristocracies of Wealth

Salmagundi No. 204-205, Fall 2019

Monica + Bill + 20 = #MeToo AF

Salmagundi No. 204-205, Fall 2019

Democracy, Populism & The Age of Trump

Salmagundi No. 204-205, Fall 2019

For the Love of Sin

Toward an Understanding of Trump’s Base

Salmagundi No. 204-205, Fall 2019

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Tim Foljahn (Photo by Caryn Palmier)

The Home Key #4:

A Conversation with Tim Foljahn

Needles

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

Portraits of Kafka

Metaphysical Modernists, Italian: Morandi, Carrà, Sironi

Salmagundi No. 204-205, Fall 2019

Guilt / Identity / Freud

Salmagundi No. 204-205, Fall 2019

Dumb Enough to Try: Some Notes on Aesthetic Rules

Salmagundi No. 204-205, Fall 2019

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A Short Film By Simone Teague with Narration by Rick Moody from his Story “Grocery List”

The Transformations of Philip Rahv

Salmagundi No. 202-203, Spring 2019 - Summer 2019