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Our Spring-Summer issue, number 230-231, is out now and we’ll be taking orders for hard copies and offering selections from its typically various and provocative pages over the next weeks

Balls of String/Stop me if you’ve heard this one before

Laura Anne Thompson

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

Bajo Control

Ariel Dorfman

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

The “Lost Girls” of the Yellow Book*

Barbara Black

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

Five Poems

Chase Twichell

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

Notes on a Photograph from 1884

Nick Flynn

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

A Thousand Gentle Smotherings

Celeste Marcus

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

What Lurks Below the New Class War

Roger Berkowitz

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

The Super-Ego in the Green World

Mark Edmundson

A Brooklyn Bovary

(As Told by Her Son)

David Mikics
Online Poetry
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“Sad Song”

Chase Twichell
Criticism Politics

Emerging from Censorship

J.M. Coetzee

Salmagundi No. 100, Fall 1993

Online

The Mess at PEN America

The defense of free expression must be viewpoint-neutral and consequence-agnostic, or it will be nothing

Nils Gilman

Hypocrite Lecteur

Sam Gee

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

Chaim Soutine Has a Terrible Stomachache

Barbara Purcell

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

Skylark

Richard Tillinghast

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

The Overlook

Ben Corvo

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

Four Poems

Safe Word, The Day, Sketch, & Endowed Chair

Randall Mann

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

Ode For Trump

Peg Boyers

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

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The Home Key #23

An Interview with Brendan Canty

Rick Moody
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Peter Gizzi’s Now It’s Dark: The Music of Survival

Where Are We & What Is To Be Done?

Rochelle Gurstein

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

On “Generation Jones” and Social Change

Rick Moody

 and

David Shorr

Many Thousands Gone*

Martha Bayles

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

On Jewish Evil

David Stromberg

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

Partisanship & Denial:

A Response To Andrew Sullivan and Finally Getting It

William Deresiewicz

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

The Praxis of “Practice”

Michael Kowalski

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

The Pleasures of Censorship

Adam Phillips

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

A Selection from Elias Canetti’s The Book Against Death

Elias Canetti
Interviews
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Women, The Arts, & The Politics of Culture

An Interview with Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

Salmagundi No. 188/189, 2015

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Wielding the Lyric

On Now It’s Dark

Ocean Vuong

The Air Felt Different: From Theory To Practice

Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

The Mango Tree

Dalia Roselfeld

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

A World on Film

Hamnet

Charlotte Allen

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

Dancing in the Dark

Syd Lea

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

Four Poems

Station Stop, What You Meant To Say, Oh, Giselle, & That Dreamer

Jan C. Grossman

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

Two Poems

Mother, Father & Ganymede

Andrew Saviano

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

Philip Roth & David Remnick

Getting Personal

Jesse Tisch

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

A Jew in Israel:

To Stay or to Leave?

David Stromberg

Salmagundi #230-231 (Spring-Summer 2026)

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As it turns out, “the aesthetic view of the world” is extremely hospitable to many of the uncivilized ideas and dissociated yearnings that were made explicit in fascism, and which also have great currency in our consumer culture.
This excerpt appears in Women, The Arts, & The Politics of Culture, by

Susan Sontag

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