BOMB Magazine

Artist Toni Dove melds ancient world scholarship with cutting-edge technologies in interactive performance and installation. Dove’s work engages augmented reality forming experiential exhibits as discussed in an interview with composer George Lewis. bit.ly/4iGvEkR

Writer Youssef Rakha’s essay collection “Postmuslim” (@GraywolfPress, 2026) draws on Islamic heritage to transcend religion, contemplating Arab Muslim identity at a time of genocide and instability. Read his interview by writer Brad Fox. bit.ly/3VsFVrT

Artist Jane Benson fragments and reanimates Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” across text, sound, and space in her show “her her” on view at Sargent’s Daughters in New York City. See Molly Murray’s full studio visit of Benson’s work published today. bit.ly/4zqh8ms

Keith Pilapil Lesmeister’s second short story collection “Ask Me About the Money” (@cstone_press, 2026) engages the taboo of money as its narrative drive. Interviewed by Katy Simpson Smith, Lesmeister tells his own monetary anecdotes. bit.ly/48g5rU6

Playwright Melanie Maria Goodreaux’s newest production How to Get to Heaven from the Crawfish Pond (2026), sets its stage in New Orleans where a woman is animated from her deathbed to share a phantasmic tryst with her deceased husband. bit.ly/4iIRx1L

Avia Tadmor’s poetry collection “Song in Tammuz” (@tupelopress, 2026) approaches sisterhood as cross-generational, cross-cultural, and cross-lingual. Read her interview by poet Sarah M. Sala from BOMB Online today. bit.ly/4ekaruo

Artist Eliana Otta was interviewed by Dominy Gallo about her book “Lost and Shared: Rehearsing Collective Mourning in a Struggling City” (Katsarida Press, 2026), a collection of writing imploring mourning the dead as an act of political power. bit.ly/3UyH9By

Painter Louis Eisner’s often moody works address the distinction between canonical and personal perspectives. Read Eisner’s conversation with writer @addis_goldman published by BOMB Online about his show at Bernheim Gallery in Zurich, Switzerland. bit.ly/3UWmDLj

In a nonfiction piece published by BOMB Online, Nicole Shawan Junior explores motherhood as a writer through spirituality, all while confronting a natural disaster, in “Mother of All Storms.” bit.ly/4yN8NZu

In our Fall issue, legendary conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth weaves anecdotes—forming a map of the downtown New York City art scene—with his lifelong pursuit of meaning-making. bit.ly/4zZLBbq

Land artist and sculptor James Perkins speaks with arts producer and writer Stephanie E. Goodalle about personal and material connections to nature. Perkins’s work is on view at Hannah Traore Gallery and in the 2026 Toronto Biennial of Art. bit.ly/4A1XttJ

Today’s BOMB Online piece, “In the Rockefeller Wing,” a comic by cartoonist Lia Strasser strolls through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, drawing her way into understanding what she sees. bit.ly/4z5L086

Today's BOMB Online interview features artist Luna Palazzolo-Daboul in conversation with writer @monilaurasimone, reflecting on her show “Luna Palazzolo-Daboul: Of Ivory and Flesh” on view at Primary in Miami until October 31. bit.ly/4z43ztk

Playwright Anne Washburn’s, interviewed by Eve Bromberg and known for “Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play” (2012), newest production “ANON” (2026) explores the doomed spiral of a family into QAnon and the defiant responses by their neighbors. bit.ly/4zPvrS6

In “Aquarium,” a short story by Jane Marchant published by BOMB today, when a daughter inherits her mother's aquarium, a white man's visit reveals secrets swimming far beneath the surface. bit.ly/4iAB8NL

“Janet Biggs: Path of Totality,” the artist's current show at @CTierneyGallery in New York City, takes on the solar eclipse as its subject, furthering themes of endurance, technology, memory, and place. Read her interview by writer Jane Ursula Harris. bit.ly/4z1oOMl

Emeline Atwood’s, interviewed by Tara Delbow, debut novel “A Real Animal” (@CatapultStory, 2026) follows Lucy, a protagonist whose upbringing haunts her series of romances, tinged with the complications of love’s wild, physical, animal edges. bit.ly/4yAtmIy

Ceramicist Roxanne Jackson, whose work is on view at The Pit in Los Angeles, California, speaks to Carolina Wheat about her sculptures that explore her preternatural experiences in nature through mythological animals and unique techniques. bit.ly/3VYtBQ2

Today’s piece from BOMB online features a short poetry collection by @MonicaCure that explores excavations of personal and historical origins. bit.ly/47UVQBP