An early release from BOMB's Winter 2023 issue : a conversation between Saidiya Hartman and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on the twenty-fifth anniversary and republication of Scenes of Subjection .

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.”

Writing from Palestine about trauma and the complacency of language.

BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.

A collection of essays about leaving a cult, joining the air force, being homeless, coming out, and finding your way to yourself through words.

A list of vital resources for ALL artists.

One hundred years later, Hartman revisits W.E.B. Du Bois's 1920 short story, "The Comet"—"a speculative fiction about the end of the world written after the pandemic of 1918, after the Red Summer of...

In an excerpt from her forthcoming book Ordinary Notes , the professor and writer contends with America’s commitment to white supremacy and violence.

A novel about the humorous horrors of queer parenting.

A discussion of her ongoing legacy as a writer people turn to.

Stories that explore pain, obsession, and desire.

Two writer-translators discuss post-Soviet feminist literature, the alternative realities of the immigrant imagination, and writing that has faith in life.

A new book of poem-drawings.

In each episode of FUSE, BOMB Magazine invites an artist to choose a guest from any creative discipline—an art crush, a close collaborator, or even a stranger they’ve admired from afar—and we bring…

A recording plays from somewhere high, / or low, through the falling dust-light: / I can’t tell you anything new about the river— / you can’t tell a river to itself.

Our first installment in this series focuses on work from poets of Salvadoran descent, exploring "a sense of belonging which has been denied from colonial times to the imperialist present."

In Evans’s first interview before the release of her new and unintentionally prescient collection, The Office of Historical Corrections, she discusses humor, power, and replicas of the Titanic .

Fifty years after the organizing group was founded, a new collection brings together their rich archive of newsletters and essays on labor, legislation, housing, and reproductive justice.

A chronicle of daily discovery through bereavement.

BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.

In an excerpt from her forthcoming book Ordinary Notes , the professor and writer contends with America’s commitment to white supremacy and violence.

"I don’t want the kind of career where everything is sensible and safe; I’d rather suffer through the anxiety of wondering where I’m going next than suffer the boredom of dancing in the same safe...

"Love is a dream where both of us are trying, at the same speed, without quitting." Read poems from John Keene's Punks , winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry.

A poet's memoir about divorce, the dream of family, and having a chorus of support.

On the limits of storytelling, discussed via Google docs.

BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.

I took the morning TGV from Poitiers to Paris on January 15th to ask Etel Adnan a question. She was about to receive France’s highest cultural honor, the Ordre de Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres....

Adjei-Brenyah, the acclaimed author of Friday Black and the forthcoming Chain-Gang All-Stars , wants everyone totake his speculative novel for exactly what it is: a hyperbolicindictment of the...

The Irish playwright on grief, adaptation, and the possibilities of form.

Turning online momentum into confessional comedy.

Tomes of work by Picasso, Kandinsky, Lichtenstein, Flavin, Klimt, Rothko, and more are as good as yours.

A nonfiction work documenting the mass sexual assaults against women protestors in Tahrir Square and the feminist organization that emerged in response.

On writing without moral objectives, Florida's thunderstorms, and jobs both terrible and sublime.

A collection of fictionalized oral histories from the year 2072 that details life in the revolutionary society of “The New York Commune.”

In order to write about his existential experiences among Syrian refugees (“The refugees weremy people. The volunteers were my people.”),Alameddine created a boundary-crossing narrator for his new...

On writing secondhand trauma, cycles of behavior, and the loneliness of internalized homophobia.

BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.