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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]

Why We Love Ape Movies

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

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An Interview with Natalia Ginzburg

Salmagundi No. 96, Fall 1992

Text and Context

Salmagundi No. 31/32, 1975

In Lieu Of A Preface

Salmagundi No. 58/59, Fall 1982 – Winter 1983

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Sexual Choice, Sexual Act

An Interview with Michel Foucault

Salmagundi No. 58/59, Fall 1982 – Winter 1983

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9/11, Islamic Fascism & The Secular Intellectual

An Evening with Christopher Hitchens

Salmagundi No. 133/134, Winter - Spring 2002

Better Living Through TV

The Honeymooners

Salmagundi No. 195/196, Summer – Fall 2017

Arrived Amsterdam

Salmagundi No. 185/186, Winter – Spring 2015

Sum

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

The Archives of Eden

Salmagundi No. 50/51, Fall 1980 - Winter 1981

Our Homeland, the Text

Salmagundi No. 188/189, 2015

Moses

Salmagundi No. 121/122, Winter – Spring 1999

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Hottentots and Phobias

A Conversation with Sir Isaiah Berlin

Salmagundi No. 146/147, Spring – Summer 2005

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Incipience

Salmagundi No. 22/23, Spring-Summer 1973

Flying From Byzantium

Salmagundi No. 3, Fall – Winter 1966

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Frank Bidart’s ‘Ellen West’ Becomes an Opera