Literature
Experimental sonnets build new frameworks for poetry, politics, and love.
Experimental sonnets build new frameworks for poetry, politics, and love.
A London novel that raises questions about politics, desire, and a changing nation.
A transgressive novel that careens through the desert landscapes of a childhood fraught with addiction, climate collapse, ties to the Manson family, and more.
A memoir about disentangling from a cult.
On the occasion of her latest collection, How High?—That High, the iconic short-story writer and founding editor of NOON talks about visiting the graves of her literary heroes and writing as a process of excavation.
A circa-now novel that interrogates where our pandemic news comes from, mob violence in India, and how journalism has failed us.
I was seventeen and working / in the fields that summer. / A seed corn job, not bad pay, / detasselling and rogueing mostly.
A hilarious and terrifying novel of ideas that asks: what’s the true cost of convenience?
A collection of essays offering an intimate look at gender and sexuality.
A collection of thoughts on the art of fiction.
Winner of BOMB’s 2021 Fiction Contest, judged by Ottessa Moshfegh
In order to write about his existential experiences among Syrian refugees (“The refugees were my people. The volunteers were my people.”), Alameddine created a boundary-crossing narrator for his new novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope.
This is an excerpt from BOMB’s Fall 2021 issue.
On writing Paris today.
Celebrating 40 years with curated selections from the archive.
A new translation with contemporary allusions that reflect the boldness of the original.