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

Between Heaven and Hell

Katie Bennett
Online

The Home Key #17

Things I Enjoyed in 2024, Band Edition

Rick Moody

Lunch With Genet

Daniel Halpern

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Power Tools

Michael Kowalski

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

A World on Film: Yorgos Lanthimos

Charlotte Allen

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Art and Moralities

Gorman Beauchamp

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Thinking About Taste

On Bad Taste, My Taste, and The Tasteless

Michael Gorra

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Blandness with a Touch of Paprika

A Taste for Jack Benny

Willard Spiegelman

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Group Copy 3 Created with Sketch.
Special Features
Group Copy 3 Created with Sketch.
Screen shot 2024 11 12 at 9.40.22 am
15 barry by emma p. 146
Barr and trump
Paddy at baleni
Marilynne church
Screen shot 2023 02 07 at 3.29.28 pm
1985 1uncut
Thumbnail img 5380
Special Feature: On Taste
Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025
Online

Celebrating David Lynch

Rick Moody

Memories of Helen Vendler

Patrick J. Keane

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Bibi the Collaborationist

David Stromberg

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Transcultural Dialogues

Robert Boyers

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Afropessimism and the Figural Negro:

Ruminations on American Fiction

Martin Jay

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Martin Amis and the Changing of the Guard

David Herman

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Race, Taste, and Fred Astaire

Jay Rogoff

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Chacun à son gout

Improvisations on a Theme by Richard Taruskin

Rick Moody

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Excerpts
Even having a narrative—because when you have more than one album, there’s already a sort of implicit narrative—is something. Right, you went from here and then to there, and where were you?
This excerpt appears in The Home Key, #5: , by

Rick Moody

.