BOMB 150 Winter 2020
Editor’s Choice
Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne’s Why?
Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie’s The New Woman’s Survival Catalog: A Woman-made Book
Glenn O’Brien’s Intelligence for Dummies
Lana Lin’s The Cancer Journals Revisited
Elaine Kahn’s Romance or The End
Interviews
Art: Bruce Pearson
by Charles Bernstein
Music: Anthony Roth Costanzo
by Justin Vivian Bond
Art: Jacolby Satterwhite
by Sean Capone
Literature: Cathy Park Hong
by Ken Chen
Theater: Christiane Jatahy
by Jay Scheib
Art: Seth Price
by Kim Gordon
Literature: Daniel Kehlmann
by Álvaro Enrigue
Fiction
Deb Olin Unferth
The Investigators
Amelia Gray
Freefall
Jenny Wu
Ice
Daniel Kehlmann
Shoes
Poetry
Sawako Nakayasu
from Some Girls Walk Into
the Country They Are From
Andrei Monastyrski
from Elementary Poetry
Bob Holman
from Life Poem (1969)
Portfolio
Takashi Arai and Jacob Kirkegaard
Comic
Jaakko Pallasvuo
Impractical Cats
Essay
Christopher Page
In Praise of Drop Shadows
Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne’s Why? by Maria Litvan
“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.”
Portraits and hauntings are inseparable bedfellows in film history.
On the 1973 feminist publication that gathered collective and self-help resources into one big, beautiful book.
The life of mutant-pop songwriter Peter Ivers was really something.
A variety of texts by a writer who fancied himself a power broker.
An interrogation of the ways in which the system of representation surrounding breast cancer can isolate, infantilize, and even erase the women it professes to help.
All loves—and all selves—are fictions. Though that doesn’t mean they aren’t true.
The poet’s new collection of essays, Minor Feelings, threads intense friendships, “bad” English, and standup comedy into a meditation on the Asian-American experience.
