Salmagundi  No. 170-171 / Spring - Summer 2011

Table of Contents

Columns
The Age of Acquiescence by Steve Fraser
Shoah, by Claude Lanzmann by Ruth Franklin
The Real Story by Siri Hustvedt
The Not-So-New South Africa by Derek Cohen

Fiction
Little Woman by Steve Stern

A Symposium: Good Art / Bad Art
Vagrant Thoughts About Quality by Jed Perl
Aesthetic Values by Rochelle Gurstein
Patriotism, Autonomy and Subversion by Benjamin Barber
On Emily Dickinson by Brenda Wineapple
The Attack on Beauty by Robert Boyers
Art and Values: What is Possible? by Charles Molesworth
Why Is A Good Poem Good? by James Longenbach
On Bad Writing by Alex Ohlin
Words in Search of a Masterpiece by Mitchell Cohen

Poems
Two Poems by Gail Mazur
Fool's Day by Sydney Lea
Three Poems by Debora Greger
Two Poems by William Logan
Badger's Mistress by Adam Day
Confessions of a Priest by Chard DeNiord

Memoirs
To Cèpe, With Love by E.J. Levy
The Science of Imaginary Solutions by Greg Hrbek

Essay
Dress by Ellen Pinsky

Review
"Yesterday's Man"? In Defense of Arthur Koestler by David Herman

Letter
A Letter to the Editors from Wendy Lesser