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

Column: Going to the Movies

Jordan Peele’s Divided Aesthetic

Sam Kahn

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

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“This Piece of Land That’s Breaking”:

In Conversation With Artist Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo

Barbara Purcell
Essays Criticism

Place, Pastness, Poems: A Triptych

Seamus Heaney

Salmagundi No. 188/189, 2015

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I Lost My Life in 2006

Judith Hannah Weiss

Bill Barr and the “Unitary Executive Theory”

Martin Jay

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Preface To A Symposium

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Questioning the Dead Man

Jordan Smith

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Five Poems

Lorrie Goldensohn

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

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Can the American Meritocracy Get Religion?
Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022
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Guest Column: Christopher Hitchens and the Necessity of Universalism

Matt Johnson

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Art

William Deresiewicz

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

Cosmopolitan Confessions

Robert Pinsky

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Too Little, Way Too Late:

The Belated About-Turn of Trump Enabler-in-Chief, Bill Barr

Patrick J. Keane

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Barr(barians) at the Gate

Steve Fraser

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Atheisms, New and Old

David Bosworth

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Why

April Bernard

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Two Poems

Rosanna Warren
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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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