Literature
In this excerpt from her interview in BOMB’s winter 2021 issue, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses activism, gay bars, and her forthcoming book, The Freezer Door.
In this excerpt from her interview in BOMB’s winter 2021 issue, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses activism, gay bars, and her forthcoming book, The Freezer Door.
A slacker novel that fights against the philosophy of brokenness, one Hot Cheetos bag at a time.
A novel that explores how a family can hide inside itself.
A poetry collection by a poet in constant transit between languages.
A poetry collection about how to handle unfinished business.
A musician’s take on Glenn Hendler’s Diamond Dogs, fascism, and how art can make us more empathetic.
On writing queer characters that identify themselves, and their relationships, on their own terms.
If I were face-up in the MRI machine, I’d see the cherry blossoms affixed to the ceiling. / But I’m face-down. / My arms are extended above my head. / A crane, I read this morning, can stay aloft for up to ten hours. / It barely needs to flap its wings.
A feminist manifesto that centers artists as the engineers of a queer and Black imagined future.
Two poets in conversation about the underworld, kissing life, and neurodivergence.
The archival genesis of Blood Feather and its rich inquiry into poetry as a curatorial act.
The night it occurred to him he was living inside a corpse…
This lecture was given at Wellesley College during the premiere of Lorraine O’Grady’s Miscegenated Family Album at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center.
A poetry collection that is “allergically pastoral” and full of good fantasies (with a touch of pain).
An account of a life-long haunting that is part memoir, part ghost story, and part critical theory.
Join us as we celebrate the forthcoming release of Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s new book, The Freezer Door.
Celebrate the launch of Teresa Carmody’s new novel, The Reconception of Marie
On interviewing revolutionaries, writing from photographs, and collaborating with translators.
Two memoirs about immigrant roots—from the Soviet Union to Syria—and growing up queer on the cultural margins of New York City.
As an Indigenous poet, Belcourt is creating space for himself and his community in “a world we did not want, a world that we did not build for ourselves.”
