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.

Influence & Anxiety

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Post-Election

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

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

GOOD TASTE, BAD TASTE, NO TASTE, WHY TASTE?

A Salmagundi Symposium

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Guest Column / A War of Words

Salmagundi 222 - 223, Spring - Summer 2024

The Care Giver

Salmagundi 222 - 223, Spring - Summer 2024

From the River to the Sea

Getting it Right, Getting it Wrong

Salmagundi 222 - 223, Spring - Summer 2024

Bees

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

Last Orders at the Gay Hussar*

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

The Doc

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

Column: Going to the Movies

Jordan Peele’s Divided Aesthetic

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

Notes on a Photograph from 1884

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

The Baron Bump*

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

The Home Key #18

The Solo Years

The Home Key #17

Things I Enjoyed in 2024, Band Edition

Lunch With Genet

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Guest Column: Power Tools

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

A World on Film: Yorgos Lanthimos

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

On Taste

A Salmagundi Symposium

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Martin Amis and the Changing of the Guard

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Building New Rafts:

Trump’s Inheritance of the Legacy of the Left

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Lost in Totality:

On the Yen for Big Events

Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

Between Heaven and Hell

A Chef in the Anthropocene

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

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Donald Judd, 15 untitled works in concrete, 1980–84 Permanent collection, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas. Photo by Florian Holzherr, courtesy of The Chinati Foundation. Donald Judd Art © 2024 Judd Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image by Florian Holzherr.

The Art Scene: The Ghost of Donald Judd

Guest Column/ Hilary Mantel’s Ghost(s)

Salmagundi 222 - 223, Spring - Summer 2024

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Barry Goldensohn Image by Emma Dodge Hanson

Body & Mind: Barry Goldensohn

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

The Martyr

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

James Salter’s Strange Career

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

The Summoning

An Interview with J.M. Coetzee

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

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Guest Column: Christopher Hitchens and the Necessity of Universalism

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Art

Salmagundi 220 - 221, Fall - Winter 2023 - 2024

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The Home Key #19

“The Sound:” An Interview with Knox Chandler

Celebrating David Lynch

Memories of Helen Vendler

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Letter From Jerusalem: Bibi the Collaborationist

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

The Art Scene: Transcultural Dialogues

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Force Fields: Afropessimism and the Figural Negro

Ruminations on American Fiction

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Art and Moralities

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025

Thinking About Taste

On Bad Taste, My Taste, and The Tasteless

Salmagundi 224 - 225, Fall - Winter 2024 - 2025