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

Steiner on Screen

David Herman

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Essays

Behind the Deluge of Porn

A Conservative Sea-Change

Jim Sleeper

Salmagundi No. 148/149, Fall 2005 - Winter 2006

Online

Thomas Mann and Sigmund Freud:

The Friendship of Genius

Jeffrey Meyers

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Online Politics

Something That Would Have Been Somebody:

Abortion, Reproductive Justice, and Political Imagination

Erin Greer

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Online Essays

After George Steiner:

A Personal Recollection

Martin Jay

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Essays

George at Chess

William Logan

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Online

Before The Earth Cooled:

The Pre-Jazz Life and Music of Buddy Bolden

Howard Fishman
Online Reviews

Poetry, Prose, and Longing:

The Memoirs of Honor Moore*

Elizabeth Benedict

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

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Online Essays

Looking for Bucharest

Bonnie Costello

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Online Politics

Trading Places

Jennifer Delton

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Online

Alternative Facts, Post Truth & The Great American Eclipse

Brice Particelli

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Online Fiction

After the Beheading

Steven Millhauser

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Politics

Trump: A Summing Up. And After?

An Exchange

David Mikics

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Todd Gitlin

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Essays

Plague in the Time of Coronavirus:

The Representation of the Black Death in the Arts

Tancrède Hertzog

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Notes on White Racial Identity

Jennifer Delton

Salmagundi No. 172/173 (Fall 2011-Winter 2012)

George Steiner (1929-2020)

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Excerpts
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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