BOMB 123/Spring 2013
Philosopher David Carrier has a special understanding for sculptor David Rabinowitch’s influences: Hume, Spinoza and Wittgenstein. Based on an interview, a text on philosophy, sculpture and Rabinowitch’s methodology.
Emmet Gowin’s early works were family portraits; his later photographs, aerial shots of the American heartland, record the beauty and waste of the land. Photographer Sally Gall tracks Gowin’s amazing career.
Saul Ostrow on Glen Seator’s tilted, full-size replicas of an office and bathroom, N.Y.O.& B.
Poet and curator Goran Tomcic and Slovenian sculptress Marjetica Potrč on displacement and the genius loci.
Write me an interview: Novelists Donald Antrim and Thomas Bolt trade keys to iconoclasm and metaphor in Antrim’s novel, The Hundred Brothers.
In his much awaited first book, The Women, Hilton Als spans autobiography, cultural theory and nonfiction essay. Artist Coco Fusco gets “the James Baldwin of the 21st century” to talk about confronting the silence.
Actor Willem Dafoe and Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje discuss The English Patient’s transformation from novel to film.
Novelist Caryl Phillips and the great theoretician Stuart Hall discuss cultural studies and the Caribbean diaspora.
Noted for his roles (co-writer/actor) in 1992’s acclaimed One False Move, Billy Bob Thornton makes his debut behind the lens with Sling Blade. He talks with John Bowe about writing the script, playing the hero and directing the action.
Director Miloš Forman began making films in Communist Czechoslovakia. He and writer Liza Bear talk about his film, The People vs. Larry Flynt, and censorship in the United States.
Mali’s premier vocalist describes her volatile mix of political lyrics, traditional African music, and American jazz.
Given Ron Rifkin’s emotionally deep being, its easy to see why Jon Robin Baitz wrote the lead character in The Substance of Fire with Rifkin in mind. The playwright and the actor intimately discuss their friendship and life in the theater.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the novel Famine. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the novella Guided Tours of Hell. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the novel My Drowning. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Persistence of Vision: After Herakleitos.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains Casebere’s photograph Tunnels, 1995. Courtesy of the Artist. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains images from Beube’s 1995 photgraph Exodus with text by Amanda Means on the work. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Seizure.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the novel The Ordinary Seaman. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “The Pair,” “Sealed,” and “The Painted Colt.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Coronary Artist (2),” “Risk Signature,” and “Madame Narcissist.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
