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BOMB Magazine | The Thin Day Hotel In this metaphysical excerpt from Dorothy Tse’s forthcoming novel,  City Like Water , an unnamed narrator navigates a city where time is quite literally…

Happy pub day to our Winter 2026 issue contributor, Dorothy Tse. Subscribe and join to read "The Thin Day Hotel" excerpted from "City Like Water" (Graywolf, 2026).

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Look Inside BOMB’s Spring 2026 Issue Our new issue hits newsstands on March 16. Here, a peek at the interviews, literature, and art inside.

BOMB’s Spring 2026 issue is here and features a mixed media and collage work by Deborah Roberts on the cover.

The spring issue will be available to BOMB members online starting March 16.

BOMB Magazine | 2025 Small Press Gift Guide A gift for all of the idiosyncratic readers in your life from the small and independent presses we featured this year.

BOMB’s Small Press Gift Guide is back! Support the small and independent presses we have featured online and in print this year. Our editors have picked the perfect reader for each book.

And please, share this with your indie press community!

BOMB Magazine | Naomi Safran-Hon by Leslie Smith III The conflict between image and material.

"Color is one of the most effective emotional tools in abstraction. But it has to be strategic." —Leslie Smith III

Smith's new paintings are on view at Chart Gallery in NYC until December 20.

BOMB Magazine | Jen Percy by Dina Nayeri A book that challenges rape myths by documenting the complex and surprising expressions of fear.

"It’s clear now how much of my decision-making and taste was shaped by men. GIRLS PLAY DEAD is a response to that." Read the interview with the author @jenpercy.bsky.social and Dina Nayeri for @bombmag.bsky.social bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

BOMB Magazine | Look Inside BOMB’s Winter 2026 Issue Our new issue hits newsstands on December 15. Here, a peek at the interviews, literature, and art inside.

BOMB’s Winter 2026 issue is here and features a dramatic photograph of a performance by Dread Scott on the cover. The winter issue hits newsstands on December 15. Subscribe, join, and receive your copy.

BOMB Magazine | Oliver Laxe by Elissa Suh Finding spiritual transcendence at a desert rave while conflicts rage in the world beyond. 

Writer Elissa Suh interviewed filmmaker Oliver Laxe. His film Sirāt surrounds a desert rave while conflicts rage in the world beyond.

“...we want to evoke something, not explain. People already understand—we’re witnessing conflict every day.”— Oliver Laxe

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Art director Luca Santiago Mora discusses his collective of neurodivergent artists.

“I had the responsibility to let these astonishing things appear and to introduce these amazing, completely unknown worlds to a wide audience.”— Luca Santiago Mora

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BOMB Magazine | Oliver Laxe by Elissa Suh Finding spiritual transcendence at a desert rave while conflicts rage in the world beyond. 

Writer Elissa Suh interviewed filmmaker Oliver Laxe. His film Sirāt surrounds a desert rave while conflicts rage in the world beyond.

“...we want to evoke something, not explain. People already understand—we’re witnessing conflict every day.”— Oliver Laxe

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BOMB Magazine | Julien Ceccaldi by Qingyuan Deng Anime-influenced drawings and videos explore queer desire.

Qingyuan Deng interviewed artist Julien Ceccaldi whose anime-influenced drawings and videos explore queer desire.

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BOMB Magazine | From The Silver Book An excerpt from a new novel exploring art and desire in 1970s Italy.

Read an excerpt from Olivia Laing’s new novel, THE SILVER BOOK which explores art and desire in 1970’s Italy. (FSG)

“Everyone knows Venice is the place to dissolve completely, to emerge changed, or to not emerge at all.” —Olivia Laing

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Sophie Golub interviewed artist Caroline Partamian on her creative process.

“The act of listening is collaborative; it’s not a passive thing. There is a sender and a receiver, like on one end of a telephone.”— Caroline Partamian

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BOMB Magazine | Orlando Reade and Ariana Reines A conversation about art, revolution, and the role of poetry in an age of catastrophe.

Authors Ariana Reines and Orlando Reade discussed art, revolution, and the role of poetry in an age of catastrophe in this interview.

“Should I try to achieve a creative masterpiece, or should I devote myself to changing this society?”— Ariana Reines

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BOMB Magazine | Orlando Reade and Ariana Reines A conversation about art, revolution, and the role of poetry in an age of catastrophe.

Authors Ariana Reines and Orlando Reade discussed art, revolution, and the role of poetry in an age of catastrophe in this interview.

“Should I try to achieve a creative masterpiece, or should I devote myself to changing this society?”— Ariana Reines

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Artist Melissa Joseph interviewed artist Tariku Shiferaw.

“Who has the power or the privilege to make a mark within our society? Who’s powerless enough to be marked or to be erased?” —Tariku Shiferaw

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Amy Winstanley’s paintings see through to something else. Artist Emily Davidson interviewed her for our Women by Women series.

“Life and painting just go hand in hand.” —Amy Winstanley

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BOMB Magazine | The Yogurt Salesman When a “cosmic malady” disrupts dairy production, a yogurt salesman must find ways to adapt in this absurd short story.

When a “cosmic malady” disrupts dairy production, a yogurt salesman must find ways to adapt in this absurd short story by @derekberghuis.bsky.social.

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Writer Will Fenstermaker interviewed Lenz Geerk about his paintings and process.

“Every step of my work is happening on the canvas. I don’t do sketches or preparations.” —Lenz Geerk

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An exhibition that investigates the magic of looking is at Menil Collection. Owen Duffy interviews the artist.

“I think in remaking I reiterate something for us to consider more deeply.” —Francesca Fuchs

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BOMB Magazine | Chet'la Sebree by Annie Liontas Poems on origins, illness, and the dream of motherhood.

Origin is the thread that connects the poems in Chet'la Sebree’s BLUE OPENING @tinhouse.bsky.social. Annie Liontas interviews her.

“... I am always trying to get back to the beginning of the self, of language, of illness.” —Chet’la Sebree

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Writer Jessica Lanay interviews artist Nicholas Galanin.

“We are literally holding, nurturing, feeding, and caring for culture and continuum while we’re here for our lifetime.”— Nicholas Galanin

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A new podcast shines a spotlight on three activist theater groups who perform against oppression.

“...These stories are proof that coming together, storytelling, and processing our reality through these art forms is essential.” —Meropi Peponides

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BOMB Magazine | Elena Sheppard by Charlee Dyroff On Cuban exile, inherited nostalgia, and stories that fragment across generations.

Author Elena Sheppard’s memoir touches on Cuban exile and inherited nostalgia. Author Charlee Dyroff interviewed her. @stmartinspress.bsky.social

“Whatever your preoccupation is, as a writer, that is what you need to write.” —Elena Sheppard

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In this interview with author, Karla Kelsey, artist Richard Move discusses reinterpreting and reembodying the legendary dancer Martha Graham.

“The poetry of her language is also unapologetic. There was an extremity of her presentation, a kind of grand diva.”

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BOMB Magazine | Kay Gabriel by Shiv Kotecha An anti-epic poem examines how desire shapes relationships and politics.

Writer Shiv Kotecha interviewed author Kay Gabriel, anti-epic poem PERVERTS examines how desire shapes relationships and politics.

“What is perversion‘s relationship to poetry? Potentially everything.” —Kay Gabriel

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Writer Blake Oetting interviewed artist Eloise Hess whose work translates photography through painting and image through touch.

“The opacity is not meant to hold at bay, but to make this opening, where even I can see again in a new way.” — Eloise Hess

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BOMB Magazine | Tiona Nekkia McClodden by Michael Londres Sculpture that goes further than human.

Artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden creates sculptures that go further than human. Writer Michael Londres interviewed her.

“The consent points, the bargains, the contracts. [BDSM] is an oral tradition, a practice.” —Tiona Nekkia McClodden

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BOMB Magazine | Tiona Nekkia McClodden by Michael Londres Sculpture that goes further than human. 

Artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden creates sculptures that go further than human. Writer Michael Londres interviewed her.

“The consent points, the bargains, the contracts. [BDSM] is an oral tradition, a practice.” —Tiona Nekkia McClodden

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BOMB Magazine | Esther Kondo Heller by Jessica Lynne A sonic and poetic exploration on grief, language, and the search for ritual after a mother's death.

AR:RANGE:MENTS explores grief through language and sound. Writer Jessica Lynne interviewed author Esther Kondo Heller. @fonografeditions.bsky.social

“That’s what makes an utterance an utterance. The person that I’m talking about is not here to respond.” —Esther Kondo Heller

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