Labor and Delivery: Carmen Winant Interviewed by Jen Schwarting
Repurposing photographs of childbirth.
Trust Poetry: Ada Limón Interviewed by Lauren LeBlanc
The poet on the power of naming, the freedom of writing, and when to carry and let go of grief.
One Piece: from Stamped by John Lucas & Claudia Rankine
The artists talk about the desire for blonde.
With severed gills and heads, the sea bream—lives spent / in a lacquered wooden bowl, waiting / on the sullied hands of men—in example / of The Resurrection of Christ, wake from death.
The poet on confronting societal limitations about the body, navigating the language of fatness, and celebrating friendships that embrace the joy of food.
Working with sound, but not always the ear.
The director on ritual, the pain of creation, and her new film, Madeline’s Madeline.
BOMB 141,
Fall 2017
Featuring interviews with Amit Dutta, Lisa Sanditz, Nina Katchadourian, Anoka Faruqee, Michelle Grabner, Suzanne Bocanegra, Adrienne Truscott, Marcus Steinweg, Mike Wallace, and Lucy Ives.
BOMB 142,
Winter 2018
Featuring interviews with Milford Graves, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Meredith Monk, Jim Hodges, Lucy Dodd, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Jlin, Cate Giordano, Don Mee Choi, Christian Hawkey, and Friederike Mayröcker.
BOMB 143,
Spring 2018
Featuring interviews with LaToya Ruby Frazier and Fred Moten, Sergio De La Pava, Nina Hoss, Barbara Hammer, Joseph Keckler, Lydia Ourahmane, Kaneza Schaal, Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi, and Summer Wheat.
BOMB 144,
Summer 2018
Featuring interviews with Chris Martin, Cy Gavin, Tauba Auerbach, Sam Hillmer, Amy Jenkins, Florian Meisenberg, John Akomfrah, Simone Forti, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Anna Moschovakis
New Books
The publications and authors worth highlighting.
The poet on erasing Dracula’s misogyny, the politics of literary appropriation, and the beauty of long poems.
The novelist on her loss of faith, youth culture, cult leaders, and spending time with syllables.
The author of The Third Hotel on existential noir, travel psychology, and what horror film theory can reveal about the human condition.
Scientists, motherhood, and other probings of the female body.
Testosterone is the hormone that is the basis of patriarchy. So if you wanna get really deep, it’s like, Do I want to participate in that? I am totally a feminist and, as much as men might not feel empowered, they are in a more powerful position than someone with a vagina, or someone who is feminine or a woman. So what does that mean for me?
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Becca Blackwell