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Essays

“I’ve Cooked the Pudding”

On Djibril Diop Mambety

Max Nelson

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

Reviews

Still Learning

A Review of Edward St. Aubyn, Dunbar

Francisco Unger

Salmagundi No. 200-201, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

Exoticism Redeemed:

Patrick Leigh Fermor in the Caribbean

Bina Gogineni
Poetry

Pieces

Adrienne Rich

Salmagundi No. 14, 1970

Poetry

Tutelage

Chase Twichell

Salmagundi #144-145 (2004-2005)

Poetry

Toxicology

Henri Cole

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

Poetry

The Snake in the Garden

Paul Matthews

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

Watching House of Cards in the Age of Donald Trump

Amy Woodbury Tease
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Special Feature: On Taste
Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025
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Conducting the Light and The Dark

A Note on Jason Molina

Peter Gizzi
Essays Archives

True Believer: My Friendship with Cynthia Ozick

Merrill Joan Gerber
Poetry

A Possum Entering the Argument

Tom Healy

Salmagundi No. 162-163, (2009)

Poetry

London. High Summer.

William Logan

Salmagundi No. 176 (2012)

Poetry

Water Damage

Rosanna Warren

Salmagundi 158/159, 2009

Poetry

Porch Steps

Robert Pinsky

Salmagundi No. 124-125, 1999-2000

Poetry

Commas, Dashes, Ellipses, Full Stops, Question Marks

Vijay Seshadri

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

Scandal Mad and Boy Crazy

Elizabeth Benedict
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Suppose then that, at some level, Trump’s deepest supporters picked up the signal that he lived and thrived for their sins and (because he was a winner) washed them clean. They would make allowances for his nastiness, explain it away, because they bonded with him as a giant of a man. He was their avenger against an unholy America that wages war on their righteousness, forcing their own racist and xenophobic impulses underground (even to the point of suppressing the knowledge that they had felt and suppressed them). In the dark imagination where their longings live, they can pass through the celestial looking glass into a purified world.
This excerpt appears in For the Love of Sin, by

Todd Gitlin

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