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What do you think of when you think of Salmagundi? “Serious”? High culture? Belletristic? Sure, all those things, plus what you might not expect. Read our new issue — #220-221 — to confirm and shake up your sense of Salmagundi.

The new issue includes items on a wide variety of subjects and features essays, columns, an interview and memoir: West Side Story / Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee (a long interview) / On Bees / Jeffrey Meyers on “writer’s writer” James Salter / A Park Avenue memoir / Martin Jay on Black Art / The Gay Hussar / The Martyr, a story by Mary Gordon / A memorial tribute to poet Barry Goldensohn / The Films of Jordan Peele (inaugural column from our film critic Sam Kahn)

The Home Key #13: An Interview with Grumbeaux

The Summoning

An Interview with J.M. Coetzee

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

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Guest Column: Christopher Hitchens and the Necessity of Universalism

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Art

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

Two Poems

Two Poems

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

Scientomancy, or Divination by Science

On Getting Butter

On the Bobos

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Phillips and Emerson:

Against Understanding

The Home Key #12

Every Good Song Pete Townshend Wrote After Quadrophenia, An Annotation

Race & Integration:

An Interview with Calvin Baker

The Black Intellectual & The Condition of the Culture

A Salmagundi Symposium at Skidmore College

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

My Park Avenue Year

Place, Pastness, Poems: A Triptych

Salmagundi No. 188/189, 2015

I Lost My Life in 2006

Bill Barr and the “Unitary Executive Theory”

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Preface To A Symposium

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Questioning the Dead Man

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Five Poems

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Shakespeareland

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

James Salter’s Strange Career

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

Column: Going to the Movies

Jordan Peele’s Divided Aesthetic

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

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“This Piece of Land That’s Breaking”:

In Conversation With Artist Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo

Notes on a Photograph from 1884

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Partisanship & Denial:

A Response To Andrew Sullivan and Finally Getting It

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

A Thousand Gentle Smotherings

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

The Praxis of “Practice”

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

What Lurks Below the New Class War

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

The Pleasures of Censorship

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

The Super-Ego in the Green World

A Selection from Elias Canetti’s The Book Against Death

A Brooklyn Bovary

(As Told by Her Son)

Dead Brothers

West Side Story, Old and New

Cosmopolitan Confessions

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Too Little, Way Too Late:

The Belated About-Turn of Trump Enabler-in-Chief, Bill Barr

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Barr(barians) at the Gate

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Atheisms, New and Old

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Why

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Ellsworth Kelly’s “Postcards”

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

How Capitalism Went “Progressive”

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023