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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]

Ralph Hamilton’s Faces

Reshuffling The Canon

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

Instruments of Oppression?

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

Books

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

Over Drinks

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

The Home Key #2

An Interview with Jon Klages

The Death of the Artist, Excellent Sheep:

An Interview with William Deresiewicz

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

We, the People and Us, the Population

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

I Make Chekov Answer for Me

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

On The Future of Reading:

Shakespeare and Baldwin

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

Rethinking the Culture Wars

Before The Dance

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

Curious

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

What to Teach, What to Read

Preface to a Symposium

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

Pandemic Cinema

Suppressing Votes the Old Fashioned Way