Bomb Issue 16 (Winter 2024)

In our Winter 2024 issue, Puppies Puppies moves into the New Museum, Anthony Davis and Thulani Davis bring their opera about Malcolm X to the Met, Kelly Link delves into dream logic, and Esteban Cabeza de Baca paints portals in the desert. Plus, poetry from Anne Carson and Kimiko Hahn, fiction from Fiona Maazel, environmental nonfiction from Lydia Millet, and more!

Interviews ART: Dineo Seshee Bopape by Zoë Hopkins

ART: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki Olivo) by Jane Ursula Harris

LITERATURE: Ed Park by David Gordon

MUSIC: Anthony Davis and Thulani Davis

ART: Alteronce Gumby by Leonardo Drew

ORAL HISTORY PROJECT: jina valentine by Kelly Lloyd

ORAL HISTORY PROJECT: Ron Bechet by Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd

LITERATURE: Kelly Link by Kevin Brockmeier

ART: Esteban Cabeza de Baca by Tarrah Krajnak

Editor’s Choice Mary Helena Clark and Mike Gibisser’s A Common Sequence by Valerie Werder

Noah Ross’s The Dogs by Rainer Diana Hamilton

Greer Lankton’s Sketchbook, September 1977 by Mattilda B. Sycamore

Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland by Hilary Leichter

J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria Machado’s Critical Hits: Writers on Video Games by Jenzo DuQue

Dorothy Carter’s Waillee Waillee by Joshua Minsoo Kim

Fiction Love Locks by Naomi Jackson

Menopause Is the Mayor by Fiona Maazel

Names for Fireflies by Gina Chung

Poetry Four Poems by Kimiko Hahn

Two Bettys by Anne Carson

Three Poems by Guillermo Rebollo-Gil

Comic Late Capitalist by Joshua W. Cotter

Portfolio Quarantine by Pipo Nguyen-duy

Nonfiction We Loved It All by Lydia Millet