Lazard’s spare, conceptual works examine the political dimensions of illness and disability and the pleasures of being with and caring for one another.

The writer on releasing her debut story collection, writing as a woman of color, and balancing a medical career with the writer’s life.

The two Chinese-born filmmakers reflect on Wang’s new documentary One Child Nation and her unique approach to blending the personal and political.

The filmmakers take an unexpected approach to documenting people in the final stage of life.

a surgeon takes / a shirt off. / a struggle. / a shrug. / a shrinking /    blinking quiet. / give him his bottle / so he can suck on it.

“The blood of the thing is the truth of the thing.”

As both physician and filmmaker, Lilti discusses his recent hospital drama and the challenges of medical and artistic practice.

Portuguese cinema, dealing with illness, and “the tissue connecting the cosmic and the corporeal.”

From the destruction of King George’s likeness at Bowling Green, to the paving over of Native American earthworks, to the debasement of Penn Station and the ongoing disappearing acts of ballparks and churches, it’s becoming more and more clear that American architecture is an architecture of impermanence.

Shohei Imamura’s 25th film, Dr. Akagi, is a lovely mess of jazzy comedy, kink, and apocalypse that he has declared to be his last movie. 

Brutus had intense yellow eyes that locked onto yours when he looked at you and cocked his head, but his eyes were closed when he was on the operating table. Joe had the OR nurse cover him with blue sheets and only his feathery, mottled tail stuck out. Joe was operating on his leg.

This interview is featured, along with thirty-four others, in our anthology BOMB: The Author Interviews.