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

After the Revolution:

Time in Havana

Campbell Mcgrath

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Bunk

Robert Cohen

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Philip Rieff’s Fellow Teachers:

The Death of Culture Then and Now

Alan Woolfolk

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

A Smiling Public Man

Jeffrey Meyers

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

The Baron Bump*

Linda Hall

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Building New Rafts:

Trump’s Inheritance of the Legacy of the Left

Martin Jay

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Lost in Totality:

On the Yen for Big Events

Garret Keizer

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

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The Home Key #19

“The Sound:” An Interview with Knox Chandler

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

Vanishing Acts

Anne Kenner

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Meditation on the Occasion of the Looting of the Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem

Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

The Conservatory

Jay Neugeboren

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

To Be “Unalive”—or Not to Be

Elizabeth Benedict

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Influence & Anxiety

Adam Phillips

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Post-Election

William Deresiewicz

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

From Philosophy to Power:

The Misuse of René Girard by Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance and the American Right

Paul Leslie

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

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The Home Key #18

The Solo Years

Rick Moody

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Marc Woodworth

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Adam Braver
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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

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