An international quarterly magazine of politics, culture, literature and the arts published at Skidmore College
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Our current issue takes on this volatile and dangerous moment with a wide variety of pieces bearing on aspects of this unprecedented time in our endangered democracy: Paul Leslie writes on J.D. Vance and the American right’s misuse of philosophy to bolster their agenda; William Deresiewicz questions the Democrats’ election postmortems and investigates what he calls an ‘exhausted’ institutionalized Liberalism while Matt Johnson considers Liberal self-doubt; Martin Jay writes about Trump’s inheritance of the legacy of the left.

Two Poems

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

Scientomancy, or Divination by Science

On Getting Butter

On the Bobos

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Phillips and Emerson:

Against Understanding

The Home Key #12

Every Good Song Pete Townshend Wrote After Quadrophenia, An Annotation

Race & Integration:

An Interview with Calvin Baker

The Black Intellectual & The Condition of the Culture

A Salmagundi Symposium at Skidmore College

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

On Boredom and Bad Smells

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

Wielding the Lyric

On Now It’s Dark

Chacun à son gout

Improvisations on a Theme by Richard Taruskin

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

The Home Key #16

An Interview with Dean Olsher

Weekday

Balanchine’s Life-Affirming Life*

Guest Column: Becoming / Unbecoming Jewish:

A Letter from James Salter

Salmagundi 222 - 223, Spring - Summer 2024

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The Home Key #15: You’ll Never Know!—An Interview With Julian Saporiti

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The Home Key #14: Now and Then

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Barry Goldensohn image by Barbara Purcell

The Breath of a Poet

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

A Thousand Gentle Smotherings

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

The Praxis of “Practice”

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

What Lurks Below the New Class War

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

The Pleasures of Censorship

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

The Super-Ego in the Green World

A Selection from Elias Canetti’s The Book Against Death

A Brooklyn Bovary

(As Told by Her Son)

Susan sontag

Women, The Arts, & The Politics of Culture

An Interview with Susan Sontag

Salmagundi No. 188/189, 2015

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“Sad Song”

Emerging from Censorship

Salmagundi No. 100, Fall 1993

Let Us Compare Mythologies

Kafka and the Uncanny

Witness to the Open Classroom Movement

The Intrepid Manet-Degas Dialogue at the Musée d’Orsay*

Salmagundi 222 - 223, Spring - Summer 2024

The Taboo: On D.H. Lawrence

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

The Home Key #13: An Interview with Grumbeaux

The Swimmer

–For Barry

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

On Barry Goldensohn

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024