31 YEARS OF THE ARTIST’S VOICE
LITERATURE
I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE: RUINS, A NOVEL BY ACHY OBEJAS
by Mar 12, 2009
Set in Cuba during the Special Period, Ruins tells of a middle aged man’s attempts to earn a living, deal with his rebellious daughter, and accept what has happened to his country.
FILM
THE PERSISTENCE OF PLACE
by Apr 20, 2009
David Varno reflects on the Charles Olsen documentary Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place.
LITERATURE
I LOOKED ALIVE
by Apr 07, 2011
“Many of the stories repeat a narrative, looping moments of loneliness filled by a stranger’s fingers. The endings are often gloomy and ruinous, and so are the beginnings. As one of Lutz’s narrators says, ‘a ruin shouldn’t usually start out as one.’” David Varno reviews Gary Lutz’s I Looked Alive.
LITERATURE
SAVAGE BY JACQUES JOUET
by Sep 22, 2009
What, at this point in time, can we make of a man,” the narrator of Jacques Jouet’s most recent novella, Savage, asks himself.
MUSIC
THE PERSISTENCE OF COURTLY LOVE: ASTERIA AT BARGE MUSIC
by Mar 02, 2009
About a week after Valentine’s Day, I found myself on a barge under the Brooklyn Bridge where a pair of early music revivalists were set up in a perfectly amorous display.
LITERATURE
THE LOWDOWN ON LOWBOY
by Mar 26, 2009
John Wray’s novel Lowboy has been out for a few weeks now, and the media attention has been universally enthusiastic.
LITERATURE
JOYRIDES FROM THE DARKROOM OF HISTORY
by Sep 22, 2010
In C, his newest novel, Tom McCarthy proposes a state of being that revolves many parts around an unusual temporal whole and, once again, circumvents the conventions of 19th-century realism. Writer David Varno delves in.
LITERATURE
A FUTURE FOR THE LITERARY NOVEL
by Apr 29, 2009
NYU’s English department holds a panel that begs the question, “Is There A Future For the Literary Novel?” Host and BOMB contributing editor reports on the conversation.
LITERATURE
JOHN YAU AND OTHERS READ FOR LAUNCH OF WASHINGTON SQUARE
by Feb 11, 2009
David Varno reports from the launch party for Washington Square’s Winter/Spring ’09 edition.