BOMB 123/Spring 2013
Larry Sultan on Bill Owens’s photographs of suburban life in the 1970s and ’80s in all their beauty and banality.
Casebere’s work is part of the pictures generation show now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Archie Rand on the expansive, colorful works of Abstract Expressionist painter Louise Fishman.
George Fifield on the whimsically off-kilter anatomy of Rona Pondick’s sculpture merging human and animal forms in a comment on the twisted imagination behind genetic engineering and the psyche.
Diane Lewis on the unique exploration of landscape, structure, and space in Walter Pichler’s drawings.
Mississippi legend Barry Hannah is out with his twelfth book, the novel Yonder Stands Your Orphan, a masterpiece of ensemble performances linked together by prose that is lustrous, Baroque, and burnished with Hannah’s unique brand of beauty.
Jonathan Franzen has written two highly acclaimed novels and is about to come out with a third, The Corrections, a searing and broad-swathed American novel that takes on the triumvirate of family, economy, and mental health.
In the early ’80s, Mary Robison and other Minimalist writers, reshaped the short story, throwing its traditional form and structure into question. Robison discusses her long-awaited novel, Why Did I Ever, with Maureen Murray.
Set amid the gangs of teenage snipers roaming the streets of Medellín, Our Lady of the Assassins, adapted by Barbet Schroder for the screen, pits a writer’s existential dilemma against the random acts of violence that punctuate life in Medellín.
Julia Wolfe has all the credentials a young composer could want: a degree from Yale, a Fulbright, and commissions and awards from the Kronos Quartet and Library of Congress. But she’s best known as one of the three founders of Bang on a Can.
Raimund Abraham’s just-completed Austrian Cultural Center rises into the Manhattan skyline like a natural force. He and fellow architect Carlos Brillembourg discuss the philosophy that forms his buildings.
This First Proof contains the story “A Lepidopterist’s Tale.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Billy Goats.” For copyright reasons this content is only available in print.
This First Proof contains the story “Taking a Stitch in a Dead Man’s Arm.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains “The Dead Man’s Dream,” an excerpt from Under the Frangipani. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Hells Bells” and “A Break in the Heat.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the prose poems “And the Talk Slid South” and “Hanging On.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the prose poems “From a Family Album” and “Without Reservations”. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Colloquy of the Cuy” and “Night Journey for a Friend.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
