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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]

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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

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Chase twichell 448

“Sad Song”

Emerging from Censorship

Salmagundi No. 100, Fall 1993

My Park Avenue Year

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

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

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