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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]

Covid Diary

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

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The Home Key #1

An Interview with Peter Stampfel

Letter from London

Elegy as Tonic

On Now It’s Dark

Qiechang

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

An Utterance That Becomes a Person

On Now It’s Dark

Night and Day—You Are The One*

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Aqueous

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Harvest

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Music of Survival

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Salmagundi Magazine: A Skidmore Student’s Perspective
February 19, 2021Liv Fidler (‘19) recounts her rich experience working with Salmagundi Magazine as a Skidmore student, interviewing award-winning contributors and making media with the resources of a Skidmore-published magazine featuring the best writers and writing from around the world since 1965.

Rick Moody, Life Coach

The Difficulty of Action During the Pandemic

El Pepe, Lebron, and Trump:

Sports, Literature, and Interpretation

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Mirth and Folly Were The Crop*

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Disorders of Articulation

To Rome

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Lot’s Wife

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021