An international quarterly magazine of politics, culture, literature and the arts published at Skidmore College
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Our 60th anniversary issue, just out, represents precisely what we’ve been offering over these many decades: a wide and surprising range of work by the best writers on everything from politics and literature to art and the current culture. Along with a collection of columns from the past and a timely consideration of AI and the humanities, the issue offers new poems by Robert Pinsky and Chase Twichell, among others, a letter from Israel, a story by Joyce Carol Oates, a report from Hanoi, a review of recent books on racial justice and integration along with editor-in-chief Robert Boyers, who started Salmagundi in New York City in 1965, on fascism and resistance in our dangerous moment. After 60 years, no backing down in sight —#228-229 is a banger.
A bustling Hanoi street.
Bia Hoi Junction, Hanoi.

The View from Hanoi

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

The New Yorker at 100:

A Personal Reflection

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

Partisanship & Denial:

A Response To Andrew Sullivan and Finally Getting It

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

The Praxis of “Practice”

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

The Pleasures of Censorship

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

The Home Key #12

Every Good Song Pete Townshend Wrote After Quadrophenia, An Annotation

A Brooklyn Bovary

(As Told by Her Son)

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“Sad Song”

Emerging from Censorship

Salmagundi No. 100, Fall 1993

Five Poems

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The Home Key #20

Defector From the Petty Wars

The Tragedy of Liberal Self-Doubt

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

The Field

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

How I Learned

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Vanishing Acts

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

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

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

The Conservatory

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

What Now, Humanist?*

Salmagundi #228-229 (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

Notes on a Photograph from 1884

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

A Thousand Gentle Smotherings

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

What Lurks Below the New Class War

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

The Super-Ego in the Green World

A Selection from Elias Canetti’s The Book Against Death

Susan sontag

Women, The Arts, & The Politics of Culture

An Interview with Susan Sontag

Salmagundi No. 188/189, 2015

Wielding the Lyric

On Now It’s Dark

In Which I Talk Further with AI About a Theory of Mind1

Will the Real Francis Picabia Please Stand Up?

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

46,000 is the New 6,000,000

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Crazy

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

After the Revolution:

Time in Havana

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Bunk

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Philip Rieff’s Fellow Teachers:

The Death of Culture Then and Now

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

A Smiling Public Man

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025