BOMB 118/Winter 2012
James Lasdun’s latest collection of short stories It’s Beginning To Hurt contains 16 intricate tales, each one thought-provoking and rich with linguistic brilliance.
Remember the old pulp novels—two-in-one, back-to-back and upside-down? When you finished one, you could flip the book over and read the other.
Emory Douglas joined the Black Panther Party soon after it was formed in 1966, and quickly began to work on the party’s newspaper, the Black Panther.
Sabine Russ maps Wolfgang Staehle’s 2001 onto 2011, tracing the painful and cathartic implications of its memory.
Cameron Shaw draws from examples in explaining her own connection to Lisa Pearson’s collection of work by female visual artists and writers.
The Library of America, doing what it does best, offers six of Ward’s groundbreaking woodcut novels from the 1930s in a beautifully printed two-volume set.
Paul W. Morris reviews the postcard-sized magazine, Abe’s Penny.
Robert Fitterman reviews THIS: A Collection of Artist’s Writings, essays edited by Susan Jennings.
Katherine Elaine Sanders reviews Mercè Rodoreda’s posthumous masterpiece, Death in Spring.
Boundaries is an overview of Maya Lin’s two-decade career as architect and monument designer.
Abigail Thomas adds new complexity to the memoir genre with her varying points of view and page-turning content. She writes about all that life has to offer in the way of birth, death, promiscuity and regret.
In his second collection of essays, funeral director and poet Thomas Lynch embraces wider and more personal themes, touching upon emotional instability, marriage, children and the search for meaning.
