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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

On Meritocracy and Faith

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

CAN THE AMERICAN MERITOCRACY GET RELIGION?

A Symposium

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Weightless Effusions

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Can a Free Society Enforce Inclusiveness?

Rick Moody, Life Coach:

The Record of Your Experiences

Undertow, Wolf’s Head Lake

How Zen Ruins Poets

Your Living Eyes

Merit?

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Diane Arbus and Sylvia Plath:

“The Horror! The Horror!”

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

The Forward-Looking Anachronist:

Johan Huizinga and Autumntide of the Middle Ages

Cornelius
Cornelius Eady (Tie by Susan Micklem)

The Home Key #3:

An Interview with Cornelius Eady

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Gifts from Joyce

Salmagundi No. 103, Summer 1994

Literature and Engagement:

The Power of Words

The Poet’s Staircase

On Robert Lowell