An international quarterly magazine of politics, culture, literature and the arts published at Skidmore College
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Pain is one of the great pleasures of reading Mantel. Thematized early, the first novel’s daughter objects against her mother, “Up the stairs you would have come, rushing to take my pain for yourself.” When that pain becomes “a frenzy…an unstemmable riot of pain, hers and hers alone,” mother duly appears to orchestrate the experience, making “every day… Mother’s Day.” Imagined scalpings, the eyeball in the spoon, testicles fed to dogs: violent little excurses punctuate a style Janet Malcolm praises as incisive, “cutting.”—Forthcoming in Regina Janes’ guest column on Hilary Mantel in Salmagundi #222-223, Spring-Summer 2024

Race & Integration:

An Interview with Calvin Baker

The Black Intellectual & The Condition of the Culture

A Salmagundi Symposium at Skidmore College

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

On Boredom and Bad Smells

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

Wielding the Lyric

On Now It’s Dark

How Capitalism Went “Progressive”

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

The Valley of the Shadow

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

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Bill Orcutt (photograph by Jim Hensley)

The Home Key #11:

An Interview with Bill Orcutt

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Max Liebermann’s portrait of the author’s grandmother, Frances née Lehmann Bernstein

My Life in Art

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

Allesverloren

Salmagundi #144-145 (2004-2005)

Pleiades

Ms. Annye, Li’l Robert Johnson & Them

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

Soul Sisters:

Anne Frank and Audrey Hepburn

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

A Brooklyn Bovary

(As Told by Her Son)

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Women, The Arts, & The Politics of Culture

An Interview with Susan Sontag

Salmagundi No. 188/189, 2015

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“Sad Song”

Emerging from Censorship

Salmagundi No. 100, Fall 1993

Talking Race Matters:

A Conversation with John McWhorter & Thomas Chatterton Williams

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

An Interview with ChatGPT

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Dylan Comes Apart In “Fragments: ‘Time Out Of Mind’ Sessions”

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Klaus Voorman’s original sketch for the cover of Revolver

The Home Key #10:

On Revolver

Authority & Freedom:

A Conversation with Jed Perl

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

What’s the Matter with Sex?

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

Toffs

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

On Not Drinking the Kool-Aid

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023