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.

Trump: A Summing Up. And After?

An Exchange

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

Plague in the Time of Coronavirus:

The Representation of the Black Death in the Arts

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

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

George at Chess

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

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