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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]

The Simplicity of Shame

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

Quartet

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

La Distruzione del Padre

An Interview with Louise Bourgeois

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

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Salmagundi Magazine’s “SALon” Podcast, Episode 1 SALon: TRANSLATION
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June 21, 2019

Translation: a carrying over but also a blundering through, a desire, perhaps a little feral, to get hold of what you don’t possess and transform it into something you can use, something that’s yours. Listen in to Episode 1 of Salmagundi’s Podcast “SALon” …

Mary Gordon translates her phobias into non-fiction: on boredom & bad smells 3:26 ARCHIVES 1 Rudolf Arnheim on Van Gogh and Gauguin: translating nature 10:40 Peter Gizzi: Rainy Days & Monday — Pop into Poetry 11:37 ARCHIVES 2 Ben Belitt on translators: illusionists, epistimologists, and the sybil 20:57 Vijay Seshadri: Bach, Etta James, Amazing Grace, Commas & Full Stops 22:20 ARCHIVES 3 Terry Caesar on English in Japan 26:27 Taerin Kim: On Family and Not Speaking the Same Language 28:37 James Miller on “El Paso"and Music Writing 30:46 Max Nelson on film-maker Claire Denis and translating emotion in film 35:31

Arguing Belief and Unbelief: A Symposium – Session One

Faith, Doubt, Atheism, Obedience

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

Tragic Destinies

Hemingway And Plath Letters

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

The Land of Utopian Denial

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

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Conducting the Light and The Dark

A Note on Jason Molina

True Believer: My Friendship with Cynthia Ozick

What I Saw at the Pictures

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

October Berceuse

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

Hunting Days

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

In the Pages of the Tehran Times

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

Layering Lives

Fiction by Tolstaya and Muñoz Molina

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

Shabby Gentility

Salmagundi No. 185/186, Winter – Spring 2015

“I’ve Cooked the Pudding”

On Djibril Diop Mambety

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

Still Learning

A Review of Edward St. Aubyn, Dunbar

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019