Exploration and Excavation: An Interview with Vivek Shraya by Sarah Neilson
On navigating the success and failure dichotomy, the tropes of women friendship narratives, and working across mediums.
Contradictions and Tensions: Shiva Ahmadi Interviewed by Naomi Falk
An artist working to unveil ugly truths.
Symptom of Society: Luba Drozd’s PPE Fabrication Initiative by Jasmine Dreame Wagner
3D-printing face shields to combat the shortage of PPE for hospital workers.
Film, performance, and sculpture that imagine exorcism as liberation.
In her paintings, videos, and installations, Ganesh plays with the distinction between art object and artifact, myth and history, to posit alternative, emancipatory futures.
On writing female friendship, learning about moonshine, and composing a novel one image at a time.
BOMB 148,
Summer 2019
Featuring interviews with Mary Weatherford, Nanfu Wang, Lee Quiñones, Venkatachalam Saravanan, Tyshawn Sorey, Ben Whishaw, Édouard Louis, Geovani Martins, Prageeta Sharma, and James Thomas Stevens.
BOMB 149,
Fall 2019
Featuring interviews with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Antoine Catala and Dan Graham, Atelier Bow-Wow, American Artist, Jeff Bliumis, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Rion Amilcar Scott, and Carmen Giménez Smith.
BOMB 150,
Winter 2020
For our 150th issue, we have redesigned our flagship print magazine. This design reaffirms our mandate to deliver the artist’s voice, supporting the vital discourse that appears in BOMB with vivid imagery and innovative juxtapositions that encourage dialogue across the arts—from conversations between artists, writers, and performers to exciting literature. We present exchanges in their formative state: revelatory, fluid, and iconoclastic.
This issue features interviews with Bruce Pearson, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jacolby Satterwhite, Cathy Park Hong, Christiane Jatahy, and Seth Price, as well as fiction from Amelia Gray, Deb Olin Unferth, and Jenny Wu, and poetry from Sawako Nakayasu, Andrei Monastyrski, and Bob Holman.
BOMB 151,
Spring 2020
This issue features interviews with Chitra Ganesh, Tania Cypriano, Charles Atlas, Netta Yerushalmy, Vi Khi Nao, Amani Al-Thuwaini, Andrea Hasler, and Bruce Boone, as well as fiction from Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Justin Taylor, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, and Lee Relvas, and poetry from Shuzo Takiguchi and Bruce Boone.
In Celebration of Short Story Month
A selection of BOMB interviews and reviews featuring short story writers.
The title of Lydia Davis’ story collection, Almost No Memory, belies the author’s capacity for nuance and detail. Fellow writer Francine Prose discusses the sensuality of structure and the perfection of shape.
Stories full of weird.
The writer on his new short story collection, creating realistic characters that don’t always change, and how fatherhood has impacted his relationship to language.
The writer on her new collection of stories about encroaching landscapes, disenfranchised characters, and the fleeting certainty of home.
Work that is just about the technical or conceptual, personal or political, is fine; it meets the world with what’s in fashion. But there’s something else bordering on magic, that brings an artwork home, makes it land and resonate. You can’t really teach that so much as conjure it.
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Kara Walker