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

Arguing Identity: Session One

Salmagundi No. 192/193, FALL 2016 - WINTER 2017

Essays

The Death of the Author

William H. Gass

Salmagundi No. 65, Fall 1984

Fiction

Pretty Story

Amy Hempel

Salmagundi No. 112, Fall 1996

Essays

Living Through Television or How a Twig Got Bent

Binnie Kirshenbaum

Salmagundi No. 195/196, Summer – Fall 2017

Criticism Politics Reviews

“Let The People See What I See”

“Open Casket” at the Whitney Biennial

Will Murray

Salmagundi No. 195/196, Summer – Fall 2017

Reviews
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Anselm Kiefer Geheimnis der Farne, 2007, Photography by Jon Lowe

Kiefer & Co. At The Miami Margulies

Charles Molesworth

Salmagundi No. 192/193, FALL 2016 - WINTER 2017

Politics
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Tempted by Vulgarity

Hilary Reid

Salmagundi No. 195/196, Summer – Fall 2017

Poetry

A Librarian of Alexandria

Barry Goldensohn

Salmagundi No. 185/186, Winter – Spring 2015

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Can the American Meritocracy Get Religion?
Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022
Essays

The Aesthetics of Fear

Joyce Carol Oates

Salmagundi No. 120, Fall 1998

Online Archives
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Essays

The Hazardous World

On “Girls,” Addiction, and Growing Up

Catherine Pond

Salmagundi No. 195/196, Summer – Fall 2017

Archives

Postcards

Anne Sexton
Online Essays
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Constantinople

Suzanne Joinson
Essays Criticism

Heidegger, Again

George Steiner

Salmagundi No. 82/83, Spring-Summer 1989

Online Archives
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“Salmagundi Annual Cocktail Party”

A Drawing c. 1969

Margie Mellman
Poetry

The Papa and Mama Dance

Anne Sexton

Salmagundi No. 9, 1969

Excerpts
Even having a narrative—because when you have more than one album, there’s already a sort of implicit narrative—is something. Right, you went from here and then to there, and where were you?
This excerpt appears in The Home Key, #5: , by

Rick Moody

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