An international quarterly magazine of politics, culture, literature and the arts published at Skidmore College
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Our Fall-Winter special issue, number 232-233, centering on personal essays on film, is out now!
Essays

Guest Column: Jam Songs

Mark Edmundson

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Column: Art & Culture

Sontag & Rieff

David Mikics

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Essays

The Enigma of Constancy: The Resilience of Trump’s Base

Todd Gitlin

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Essays

Lighter than Air

Jennifer Stock

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Poetry

Three Poems

Adrie Kusserow

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Poetry

Edict

Sadaf Halai

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

The Black Intellectual & The Condition of the Culture

A Salmagundi Symposium at Skidmore College

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Poetry

Migrants Devouring the Flesh of a Horse

Henri Cole

Salmagundi No. 204-205, Fall 2019

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Politics

Column: Letter From London

The 2019 General Election

David Herman

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Column: Force Fields

On The Spectrum: Conspiracy Theories and Explanations

Martin Jay

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Essays
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Romare Bearden

Bearden’s Studio on Canal Street, New York City (1976)

(Photo by Blaine Waller)

Conjure Women: Romare Bearden and the Stories Great Grandmother Told

Kevin Brown

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Mark Strand Going Fast

Spencer Reece

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

What She Sees in the Diorama

Jan C. Grossman

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Modigliani and the Poets

Jeffrey Meyers

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

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A View of Him From Here

Remembering Lee K. Abbott

Patrick Dacey
Essays

The Silences of Eric Hobsbawm

David Herman

Salmagundi No. 204-205, Fall 2019

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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