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 it’s typically various and provocative pages over the next weeks

The “Lost Girls” of the Yellow Book*

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

Five Poems

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

Notes on a Photograph from 1884

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

A Thousand Gentle Smotherings

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

What Lurks Below the New Class War

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

The Super-Ego in the Green World

A Brooklyn Bovary

(As Told by Her Son)

Chase twichell 448

“Sad Song”

Emerging from Censorship

Salmagundi No. 100, Fall 1993

The Mango Tree

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

Chaim Soutine Has a Terrible Stomachache

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

Dancing in the Dark

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

What Now, Humanist?*

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

The New Yorker at 100:

A Personal Reflection

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

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The Home Key #20

Defector From the Petty Wars

The Tragedy of Liberal Self-Doubt

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Many Thousands Gone*

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

On Jewish Evil

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

Partisanship & Denial:

A Response To Andrew Sullivan and Finally Getting It

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

The Praxis of “Practice”

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

The Pleasures of Censorship

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

A Selection from Elias Canetti’s The Book Against Death

Susan sontag

Women, The Arts, & The Politics of Culture

An Interview with Susan Sontag

Salmagundi No. 188/189, 2015

Wielding the Lyric

On Now It’s Dark

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

Skylark

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

A bustling Hanoi street.
Bia Hoi Junction, Hanoi.

The View from Hanoi

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

Rosanna Warren: An Interview*

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

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

Will the Real Francis Picabia Please Stand Up?

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

46,000 is the New 6,000,000

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025