Bomb Magazine Issue #176

The authors, artists, and performers featured in BOMB’s summer issue model what making art can be in 2026. Their practices offer new methods to sustain creativity and support healing, engage language as a means of salvation, and mine personal and national histories with empathy and wit. The poetry and prose in our summer issue consider a range of subjects, from mysterious ailments to locker room conflicts to the last gringo president of the US.

INTERVIEWS Dave Eggers by Jim James Jun Kaneko by Mark Mack Lotus L. Kang by Lara Mimosa Montes Reverend Joyce McDonald by Katherine Cheairs Rodney McMillian by Dave McKenzie Ruth Ozeki by Hannah Tinti Samora Pinderhughes by Jason Moran Debra Priestly by Nancy Grossman Elaine Reichek by Sabrina Gschwandtner

FICTION Isabelle Fang, Yuri Herrera, Claire Vaye Watkins

NONFICTION Shaan Sachdev

POETRY Adedayo Agarau, Elena Alexander, Kelsey Day

PORTFOLIO Shraddha Ramani and William Villalongo

COMIC Margaret Barry

EDITOR’S CHOICE Reflections on new works from Horse Lords, Valeria Luiselli, Nicolás Pereda, Julian Radlmaier, and Paul Yoon and a monograph on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

on the cover: Detail of Rodney McMillian, shaft, 2021–22, latex, acrylic, Flashe, ink, and paper on canvas, six panels, 80 × 4 feet diameter. Photo by Jason Mandella. Courtesy of the artist, Vielmetter Los Angeles, and Petzel, New York City.