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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 Aesthetics of Fear

Salmagundi No. 120, Fall 1998

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Robert and Peg Boyers in the Salmagundi office, 1976

The Hazardous World

On “Girls,” Addiction, and Growing Up

Salmagundi No. 195/196, Summer – Fall 2017

Postcards

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Constantinople

Heidegger, Again

Salmagundi No. 82/83, Spring-Summer 1989

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“Salmagundi Annual Cocktail Party”

A Drawing c. 1969

The Papa and Mama Dance

Salmagundi No. 9, 1969

The Death of the Author

Salmagundi No. 65, Fall 1984

Pretty Story

Salmagundi No. 112, Fall 1996

Living Through Television or How a Twig Got Bent

Salmagundi No. 195/196, Summer – Fall 2017

“Let The People See What I See”

“Open Casket” at the Whitney Biennial

Salmagundi No. 195/196, Summer – Fall 2017

Photography by Jon Lowe
Anselm Kiefer Geheimnis der Farne, 2007, Photography by Jon Lowe

Kiefer & Co. At The Miami Margulies

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

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Tempted by Vulgarity

Salmagundi No. 195/196, Summer – Fall 2017

A Librarian of Alexandria

Salmagundi No. 185/186, Winter – Spring 2015

Grocery List

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