BOMB 111/Spring 2010
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ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
One of the forerunners of American Minimalism, the painter and cultural innovator talks to BOMB’s art editor, Saul Ostrow about his life’s work; art that traces the second half of the twentieth century.
Vanguard-ist in the renaissance of painting, John Currin traces its history from the nudes of Lucas Cranach and the mannerists to Fragonard and Boucher to modern life. Art Historian and author Robert Rosenblum interviews.
Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire is one of this remarkable writer’s most vexing projects. Leading Nabokov critic and award-winning biographer Brian Boyd has produced a book length study, On Nabokov’s Pale Fire: The Magic of Atristic Discovery.
The life of Mary McCarthy, one of the most controversial American intellectuals of this century, is paid tribute in this innovative biography, Seeing Mary Plain, A Life of Mary McCarthy, by former New Yorker fiction editor Frances Kiernan.
Booker Prize runner-up, and Whitbread-award winning novelist, Jim Crace has written novels about Jesus and transcendentalism, though he’s a staunch, vocal, atheist. Minna Proctor talks with Crace about his new book, Being Dead.
Arto Lindsay’s ‘80s band, DNA, compounded New York’s No Wave sound into the ultimate punk howl. His work with the dean of Brazilian song, Caetano Veloso, and other Brazilian musicians opened North American ears to samba.
Pulitzer-prize and Tony-award winning playwright Marsha Norman has just completed a run of her acclaimed play Trudy Blue. Painter April Gornik talks with Norman about a misdiagnosis that altered the lives of Norman and her character.
Suzan Sherman on how Al Souza disrupts the “reversed exercise in abstraction” that is constructing a puzzle with his chaotic collages of puzzle pieces. This article is only available in print.
George Negroponte on the discrete, deliberate, “real” abstract drawings created by Beatrice Caracciolo.
Mary Heilmann on the playful color-field paintings of Joanne Greenbaum.
This First Proof contains “Garden of Eden,” an excerpt from Use Me. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Schwartz and Dill.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains “Sleeping Bear Lament,” an excerpt from Assorted Fire Events. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “The Night Doctor” from the collection When I Was Mortal, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Willow Song,” “Jackson Hot Springs, Oregon,” and “Mariculture: The Sea Constrained.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “On the Border” and “Last Dance.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Toxic Waste” and “Potions.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the novel Vertigo, translated by Michael Hulse. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.