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

I Make Chekov Answer for Me

Francine Prose

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

On The Future of Reading:

Shakespeare and Baldwin

Mark Edmundson

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

Rethinking the Culture Wars

Rochelle Gurstein

Before The Dance

Marcia Christine Tindall

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

Curious

Joyce Carol Oates

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

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What to Teach, What to Read

Preface to a Symposium

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

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Pandemic Cinema

Amy Woodbury Tease

Suppressing Votes the Old Fashioned Way

Lynn Adelman
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Can the American Meritocracy Get Religion?
Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Reshuffling The Canon

Siri Hustvedt

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

Instruments of Oppression?

Robert Boyers

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

Books

Patrick J. Keane

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

Over Drinks

Tara Skurtu

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

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The Home Key #2

An Interview with Jon Klages

Rick Moody
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The Death of the Artist, Excellent Sheep:

An Interview with William Deresiewicz

Robert Boyers

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

We, the People and Us, the Population

Martin Jay

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

Covid Diary

Elizabeth Benedict

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

Excerpts
I think we will not be convulsing with regret over Fortnite. One thing we will think is: in the hardest time in a hundred years, I spent eighteen months with my kids, every morning, every night, sometimes all but a few hours of the day.
This excerpt appears in Rick Moody, Life Coach, by

Rick Moody

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