I believe that each of us is given one sentence at birth, and we spend the rest of our life trying to read that sentence and make sense of it.
—
Li Young Lee
Portfolio by Malcolm Peacock
- Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran’s Decade of Fire by Roya Marsh
- Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Word Book (Translated by Bettina Funcke) by Corina Copp
- Lafawndah’s The Fifth Season by Lily Sperry
- Andrés Jaque and Ivan L. Munuera’s The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19 by Alex Tell
- Rainald Goetz’s Rave by Shivani Radhakrishnan
- Josephine Decker’s Shirley by Lincoln Michel
Editor's Choice
- Trenton Doyle Hancock by Bill Kartalopoulos
- Martine Syms by Steffani Jemison
- Rufus Wainwright by Rakesh Satyal
- Billy-Ray Belcourt by Layli Long Soldier
- Erica Baum by Rajesh Parameswaran
- Nathalie Léger by Amanda DeMarco
- Carolyn Lazard by Catherine Damman
Interviews
- Little Beast by C Pam Zhang
- Four Stories by Kevin Brockmeier
- from The Caretaker by Doon Arbus
Fiction
- Some Thoughts on Diaspora and Hybridity: An Unpublished Slide Lecture (1994) by Lorraine O’Grady
- Droplets by Paula Mónaco Felipe
Nonfiction
- Portfolio by Malcolm Peacock
Portfolio
- Project by Garrett Bradley
Project
Malcolm Peacock is a multidisciplinary artist whose participatory and experiential practice examines issues of race, queer identity, sex, and history through his experiences with death and his family narratives. His work has been shown at Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, and Terrault Contemporary, Baltimore, among other venues. He has participated in residencies at the University of Pennsylvania, Denniston Hill, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
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BOMB 153,
Fall 2020
Our fall issue features interview with Erica Baum, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Carolyn Lazard, Nathalie Léger, Martine Syms, and Rufus Wainwright; fiction by Kevin Brockmeier and C Pam Zhang; poetry by Yi Sang and Vijay Seshadri; nonfiction by Lorraine O’Grady and Paula Mónaco Felipe; a special project by Garrett Bradley; and more.
