An international quarterly magazine of politics, culture, literature and the arts published at Skidmore College
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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.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Art

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

Two Poems

Two Poems

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

Scientomancy, or Divination by Science

On Getting Butter

On the Bobos

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Phillips and Emerson:

Against Understanding

The Home Key #12

Every Good Song Pete Townshend Wrote After Quadrophenia, An Annotation

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

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The Home Key #19

“The Sound:” An Interview with Knox Chandler

Celebrating David Lynch

Memories of Helen Vendler

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Bibi the Collaborationist

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Transcultural Dialogues

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Afropessimism and the Figural Negro:

Ruminations on American Fiction

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Martin Amis and the Changing of the Guard

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Race, Taste, and Fred Astaire

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Notes on a Photograph from 1884

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Partisanship & Denial:

A Response To Andrew Sullivan and Finally Getting It

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

A Thousand Gentle Smotherings

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

The Praxis of “Practice”

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

What Lurks Below the New Class War

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

The Pleasures of Censorship

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

The Super-Ego in the Green World

A Selection from Elias Canetti’s The Book Against Death

A Brooklyn Bovary

(As Told by Her Son)

Susan sontag

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

The Home Key #18

The Solo Years

The Home Key #17

Things I Enjoyed in 2024, Band Edition

Lunch With Genet

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Power Tools

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

A World on Film: Yorgos Lanthimos

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Art and Moralities

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Thinking About Taste

On Bad Taste, My Taste, and The Tasteless

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Blandness with a Touch of Paprika

A Taste for Jack Benny

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025