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• On Israel and Gaza—Susie Linfield and David Stromberg • Regina Janes on Hilary Mantel • Elizabeth Benedict on James Salter and Jewishness • Steve Stern: Again with Kafka • Phillip Lopate—Coming of Age in the Open Classroom • A Story by Joyce Carol Oates • Art: Donald Judd & Manet/Degas • Jay Rogoff on Balanchine • Jeffrey Meyers: Wounded Spirits of WWI • Poems by Mazur, Shapiro, Logan and others & More ON THE COVER: Hans Bellmer “The Doll (Face and Knife),” 1935

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

Chase twichell 448

“Sad Song”

Emerging from Censorship

Salmagundi No. 100, Fall 1993

Dead Brothers

West Side Story, Old and New

Cosmopolitan Confessions

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Too Little, Way Too Late:

The Belated About-Turn of Trump Enabler-in-Chief, Bill Barr

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Barr(barians) at the Gate

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Atheisms, New and Old

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Why

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Ellsworth Kelly’s “Postcards”

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

How Capitalism Went “Progressive”

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

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

Place, Pastness, Poems: A Triptych

Salmagundi No. 188/189, 2015

I Lost My Life in 2006

Bill Barr and the “Unitary Executive Theory”

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Preface To A Symposium

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Questioning the Dead Man

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Five Poems

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Shakespeareland

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Talking Race Matters:

A Conversation with John McWhorter & Thomas Chatterton Williams

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023