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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]

Exoticism Redeemed:

Patrick Leigh Fermor in the Caribbean

Pieces

Salmagundi No. 14, 1970

Tutelage

Salmagundi #144-145 (2004-2005)

Toxicology

Salmagundi No. 148/149, Fall 2005 - Winter 2006

The Snake in the Garden

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

Watching House of Cards in the Age of Donald Trump

Bughouse:

Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth’s

On “Privilege”:

A Conversation with Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Robert Boyers

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

A Possum Entering the Argument

Salmagundi No. 162-163, (2009)

London. High Summer.

Salmagundi No. 176 (2012)

Water Damage

Salmagundi 158/159, 2009

Porch Steps

Salmagundi No. 124-125, 1999-2000

Commas, Dashes, Ellipses, Full Stops, Question Marks

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

Scandal Mad and Boy Crazy

The Shipwrecked Mind:

On Political Reaction

On The Good Wife

Salmagundi No. 195/196, Summer – Fall 2017