An international quarterly magazine of politics, culture, literature and the arts published at Skidmore College
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Our Spring-Summer issue, number 230-231, is out now and we’ll be taking orders for hard copies and offering selections from its typically various and provocative pages over the next weeks

Balls of String/Stop me if you’ve heard this one before

Laura Anne Thompson

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

Many Thousands Gone*

Martha Bayles

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

On Jewish Evil

David Stromberg

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

Partisanship & Denial:

A Response To Andrew Sullivan and Finally Getting It

William Deresiewicz

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

The Praxis of “Practice”

Michael Kowalski

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

The Pleasures of Censorship

Adam Phillips

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

A Selection from Elias Canetti’s The Book Against Death

Elias Canetti
Interviews
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Women, The Arts, & The Politics of Culture

An Interview with Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

Salmagundi No. 188/189, 2015

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Wielding the Lyric

On Now It’s Dark

Ocean Vuong

The Mango Tree

Dalia Roselfeld

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

Skylark

Richard Tillinghast

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

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Paul McCartney with Linda at Empire Theatre, Liverpool 1973

The Home Key #22: Paul McCartney, the Solo Years

Rick Moody

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Marc Woodworth

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Adam Braver
A bustling Hanoi street.
Bia Hoi Junction, Hanoi.

The View from Hanoi

Brock Eldon

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

Rosanna Warren: An Interview*

Rosanna Warren

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

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In Which I Talk Further with AI About a Theory of Mind1

Rick Moody

Will the Real Francis Picabia Please Stand Up?

Barbara Purcell

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

46,000 is the New 6,000,000

David Stromberg

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

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The Home Key

The “Lost Girls” of the Yellow Book*

Barbara Black

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

Five Poems

Chase Twichell

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

Notes on a Photograph from 1884

Nick Flynn

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

A Thousand Gentle Smotherings

Celeste Marcus

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

What Lurks Below the New Class War

Roger Berkowitz

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

The Super-Ego in the Green World

Mark Edmundson

A Brooklyn Bovary

(As Told by Her Son)

David Mikics
Online Poetry
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“Sad Song”

Chase Twichell
Criticism Politics

Emerging from Censorship

J.M. Coetzee

Salmagundi No. 100, Fall 1993

Chaim Soutine Has a Terrible Stomachache

Barbara Purcell

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

Dancing in the Dark

Syd Lea
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The Home Key #21: 2025 Music I Liked (Protest Edition!)

Rick Moody

What Now, Humanist?*

Jennifer Delton

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

The New Yorker at 100:

A Personal Reflection

Martin Jay

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

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The Home Key #20

Defector From the Petty Wars

Rick Moody

The Tragedy of Liberal Self-Doubt

Matt Johnson

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

The Field

Ben Corvo

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Excerpts
Suppose then that, at some level, Trump’s deepest supporters picked up the signal that he lived and thrived for their sins and (because he was a winner) washed them clean. They would make allowances for his nastiness, explain it away, because they bonded with him as a giant of a man. He was their avenger against an unholy America that wages war on their righteousness, forcing their own racist and xenophobic impulses underground (even to the point of suppressing the knowledge that they had felt and suppressed them). In the dark imagination where their longings live, they can pass through the celestial looking glass into a purified world.
This excerpt appears in For the Love of Sin, by

Todd Gitlin

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