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• On Israel and Gaza—Susie Linfield and David Stromberg • Reginal Janes on Hilary Mantel • Elizabeth Benedict on James Salter and Jewishness • Steve Stern: Again with Kafka • Phillip Lopate—Coming of Age in the Open Classroom • A Story by Joyce Carol Oates • Art: Donald Judd & Manet/Degas • Jay Rogoff on Balanchine • Jeffrey Meyers: Wounded Spirits of WWI • Poems by Mazur, Shapiro, Logan and others & More

The Taboo: On D.H. Lawrence

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

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

Two Poems

Two Poems

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

Scientomancy, or Divination by Science

On Getting Butter

On the Bobos

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Phillips and Emerson:

Against Understanding

The Home Key #12

Every Good Song Pete Townshend Wrote After Quadrophenia, An Annotation

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The Home Key #14: You’ll Never Know!—An Interview With Julian Saporiti

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The Home Key #14: Now and Then

Dead Brothers

West Side Story, Old and New

Cosmopolitan Confessions

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Too Little, Way Too Late:

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

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Barr(barians) at the Gate

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Atheisms, New and Old

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Why

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

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

Partisanship & Denial:

A Response To Andrew Sullivan and Finally Getting It

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

A Thousand Gentle Smotherings

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

The Praxis of “Practice”

Salmagundi 216-217, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

What Lurks Below the New Class War

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

The Pleasures of Censorship

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

The Super-Ego in the Green World

The Home Key #13: An Interview with Grumbeaux

My Park Avenue Year

Place, Pastness, Poems: A Triptych

Salmagundi No. 188/189, 2015

I Lost My Life in 2006

Bill Barr and the “Unitary Executive Theory”

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Preface To A Symposium

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Questioning the Dead Man

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023

Five Poems

Salmagundi 218-219, Spring-Summer 2023