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Our Fall-Winter special issue, number 232-233, centering on personal essays on film, is out now!

A Jew in Israel:

To Stay or to Leave?

David Stromberg

Salmagundi # 230-231

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Paul McCartney with Linda at Empire Theatre, Liverpool 1973

The Home Key #22: Paul McCartney, the Solo Years

Rick Moody

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Marc Woodworth

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Adam Braver
A bustling Hanoi street.
Bia Hoi Junction, Hanoi.

The View from Hanoi

Brock Eldon

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

Rosanna Warren: An Interview*

Rosanna Warren

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

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In Which I Talk Further with AI About a Theory of Mind1

Rick Moody

Will the Real Francis Picabia Please Stand Up?

Barbara Purcell

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

46,000 is the New 6,000,000

David Stromberg

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Crazy

Philip Schultz

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

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Money: A Special Feature
Salmagundi No. 185/186, Winter – Spring 2015

On Aphorism:

The World in a Line

Yahia Lababidi

Salmagundi # 230-231

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The Home Key #21: 2025 Music I Liked (Protest Edition!)

Rick Moody

What Now, Humanist?*

Jennifer Delton

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

The New Yorker at 100:

A Personal Reflection

Martin Jay

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

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The Home Key #20

Defector From the Petty Wars

Rick Moody

The Tragedy of Liberal Self-Doubt

Matt Johnson

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

The Field

Ben Corvo

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

How I Learned

Richard Tillinghast

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

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I’m writing like a chimpanzee, which means primitively and fluently.
This excerpt appears in Postcards , by

Anne Sexton

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