An international quarterly magazine of politics, culture, literature and the arts published at Skidmore College
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What do you think of when you think of Salmagundi? “Serious”? High culture? Belletristic? Sure, all those things, plus what you might not expect. Read our new issue — #220-221 — to confirm and shake up your sense of Salmagundi.

The new issue includes items on a wide variety of subjects and features essays, columns, an interview and memoir: West Side Story / Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee (a long interview) / On Bees / Jeffrey Meyers on “writer’s writer” James Salter / A Park Avenue memoir / Martin Jay on Black Art / The Gay Hussar / The Martyr, a story by Mary Gordon / A memorial tribute to poet Barry Goldensohn / The Films of Jordan Peele (inaugural column from our film critic Sam Kahn)

On Boredom and Bad Smells

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

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

Wielding the Lyric

On Now It’s Dark

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

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