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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]

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Two Aspects of Photography:

Irving Penn and Louise Lawler

Toasting Rockfish

Salmagundi No. 195/196, Summer – Fall 2017

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Sick and Dark?*

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

Not Your Grandfather’s Right

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

On Jane Jacobs

Salmagundi No. 195/196, Summer – Fall 2017

To The Campus Left, With Love

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

Politics by Other Means

25 Years Later

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

Is Drawing Dead?

The Photographs of Rosalind Fox Solomon

Salmagundi No. 190/191 Spring-Summer 2016

Hate Speech

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

Fear of Contagion and the Rage to Censor

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

History

Salmagundi No. 22/23, Spring-Summer 1973

Group Thinking

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

I Confess:

My Cultural Misappropriation

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

Arguing Identity: Session One

Salmagundi No. 192/193, FALL 2016 - WINTER 2017