An international quarterly magazine of politics, culture, literature and the arts published at Skidmore College
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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]

The Measuring Muse

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

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Photograph of the young Rickie Lee Jones courtesy of the artist

The Home Key #7

An Interview with Rickie Lee Jones

Deadfacting: On Exhuming the Past For Present Purposes

Sunday with Trees

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Googlegangers & Flaccid Designators

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Kalim Mansour

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Ferocious Entertainment:

Lionel Shriver

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Notes on Monogamy

The Home Key #8:

Regina Spektor, Onto-Theologically

Make Our Institutions Great Again

On ‘Wayne Thiebaud 100’ and a Conversation With the Artist at Age 101

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

New Light Tabernacle

Invisible Ink: A Mystery

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Memorial to Venus

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Nabokov and Balthus:

The Erotic Imagination

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

On Learning How To Act:

A Reply to Adam Phillips & The Pleasures of Censorship