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Our Fall-Winter special issue, number 232-233, centering on personal essays on film, is out now!

If You Would Let Me

Maggie Dietz

Three Books, Two Hats, and an Essay Survival Plan

Linda Hall

Roth and the Biographers

David Herman

On Meritocracy and Faith

Rick Moody

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

CAN THE AMERICAN MERITOCRACY GET RELIGION?

A Symposium

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Race & Integration:

An Interview with Calvin Baker

Robert Boyers

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Calvin Baker

The Forward-Looking Anachronist:

Johan Huizinga and Autumntide of the Middle Ages

Benjamin Ivry
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Cornelius Eady (Tie by Susan Micklem)

The Home Key #3:

An Interview with Cornelius Eady

Rick Moody
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Special Feature: On Taste
Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Disenchantment and Dogma

William Deresiewicz

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Beauty in Struggle:

On Jacob Lawrence

Barbara Purcell

The Future of a Bronze Age Religion

David Skeel

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Merit?

Marilynne Robinson

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Diane Arbus and Sylvia Plath:

“The Horror! The Horror!”

Jeffrey Meyers

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Weightless Effusions

Siri Hustvedt

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Can a Free Society Enforce Inclusiveness?

Jennifer Delton

Rick Moody, Life Coach:

The Record of Your Experiences

Rick Moody
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The moment god goes, the text becomes sacred…If god is on permanent vacation elsewhere, then this world is all there is; it is the entire text…
This excerpt appears in The Death of the Author, by

William H. Gass

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