Four Poems by Maggie Nelson
I planned to write a book about / the color blue. Now I’m suddenly surrounded / by green, green gagging me / pleasurably, green holding onto my hips / from behind, digging into / the cleft, the cleft // that can be made.
Sending Out the Signal: Swoon Interviewed by Katie Peyton
“I take myself, my drawings, and this little bundle of creative forces that is me, and I try to make a chemical reaction with the world.”—Swoon
Summer Issue: Portfolio by Torkwase Dyson
These drawings are from a series of 210 on view at the Graham Foundation in Chicago as part of Torkwase Dyson and the Wynter-Wells School through July 28, 2018.
The British experimental rock group returns to the stage.
Wheatpasting portraits on the Navajo Nation.
Interrogating the whiteness of the user interface.
On writing without moral objectives, Florida’s thunderstorms, and jobs both terrible and sublime.
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 writer on surrendering, working through her avoidance, and using her body as an anchor.
After The Velvet Underground, a poetic underworld.
The covert operative with a complex psyche.
“I love titles that sound good in the mouth.”
The black figure has always been a subject of entertainment in popular culture, as well as an image to sell things. In some ways, that’s how people relate to us—because they’ve seen us on television.
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Derrick Adams