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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.

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

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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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

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

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